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▪ I. bauchle, bachle Sc.|ˈbɑːx(ə)l|
[Etymol. unknown; ? connected with bauch.]
1. An old shoe used as a slipper, or worn down at the heel, which causes the wearer to shamble.
1787W. Taylor Scots Poems 4 (Jam.) Thro' my auld bachle peep'd my muckle tae. 1868G. Macdonald R. Falconer II. 33 My sins are jist like muckle bauchles upo' my feet, and winna lat me [come].
2. A shambler, a ne'er-do-well.
1829Hogg Sheph. Cal. II. 195 He'll be but a bauchle in this world and a backsitter in the neist.
▪ II. † bauchle, bachle, v. Sc. Obs.
[? f. bauch = ‘to treat as bauch’: apparently the original or one of the sources of baffle.]
trans. To subject to disgrace or ignominy, treat with contumely, vilify; = baffle 1, 2; also absol.
c1470Henry Wallace viii. 723 He..Rapreiffit Eduuard..off this thing, Bawchillyt his seyll, blew out on that fals king, as a tyrand. 1496Seal of Cause for Hammermen (Jam.) In bachlying of the Hammyrmenis work..and dishonouring of our said burgh. c1550Sir J. Balfour Practicks (Jam.) He at ane inconvenient time bauchlit and reprovit. |