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shauchling, ppl. a. Sc.|ˈʃɑxlɪŋ|
[f. shauchle v. + ing2.]
Shuffling in gait; infirm, unsteady; fig. shuffling, prevaricating, unreliable.
1755Ramsay To Jas. Clerk 64 Debts I abhor, and plan to be Frae shochling trade and danger free. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 186 Chiels that would..look prouder, when taking their forenoon's airing alang Princes Street, on a bit schachlin ewe-necked powney..than Saladin. a1894Stevenson Weir of Hermiston iii. (1896) 74 And I would send no man to be a servant to the King..that has proved such a shauchling son to his own faither. |