Meaning of bauchle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To misuse, to bungle.
   Scotland
2. To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
   Scotland

Examples

“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...”

“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.”

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