bauchle
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1VERB + BAUCHLE
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verb
To misuse, to bungle.
Our enemies were disputing not far off upon the deck, and that so loudly that I could hear a word or two above the washing of the seas. “It was Shuan bauchled it,” I heard one say.
Maybe that shot that ye think ye bauchled was the most providential shot ye ever fired...
To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
An echo of "bauchling" lingered on, it seemed to me, in Cumbrian rural police courts until a few years ago. Nowhere else, as a court reporter, have I heard so much abusive interruption and blasphemous invocation from the public benches during the hearing of cases. Cumbrian magistrates dealt with it most tolerantly.
noun
An old shoe.
1842, Laird of Logan, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, issue 481, page 104. We a' ken that there's tongues in heads, but I ne'er heard o' ony in hats or bauchles afore.
A fool.
He adds, probably his letter would be propaled and made a bauchle of, and assures them he was never loved at Court as a minister.
A bungled or muddled situation; a mess.
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5Our enemies were disputing not far off upon the deck, and that so loudly that I could hear a word or two above the washing of the seas. “It was Shuan bauchled it,” I heard one say.
WiktionaryMaybe that shot that ye think ye bauchled was the most providential shot ye ever fired...
WiktionaryAn echo of "bauchling" lingered on, it seemed to me, in Cumbrian rural police courts until a few years ago. Nowhere else, as a court reporter, have I heard so much abusive interruption and blasphemous
Wiktionary1842, Laird of Logan, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, issue 481, page 104. We a' ken that there's tongues in heads, but I ne'er heard o' ony in hats or bauchles afore.
WiktionaryHe adds, probably his letter would be propaled and made a bauchle of, and assures them he was never loved at Court as a minister.
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