Meaning of sprauchle | Babel Free

Definitions

To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty.

Scotland, intransitive

Examples

“We'll sprauchle yont life's roughsome way, / As canny as we dow; / An' souther oor affections aye, / In love's heart-warmin' lowe.”

“We've routh o' disappointments as / We sprauchle up the brae, / We dinna get the things we want, / We lose the things we hae ;”

“However far he might sprauchle up the brae, he never forgot — or patronised — an old friend.”

“Sandra, her man, Raymond an his wife, sprauchle ower roots an bushes, hurryin through the trees.”

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