▪ 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.
| 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 4 (Jam.) Thro' my auld bachle peep'd my muckle tae. 1868 G. 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.
| 1829 Hogg 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.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace viii. 723 He..Rapreiffit Eduuard..off this thing, Bawchillyt his seyll, blew out on that fals king, as a tyrand. 1496 Seal of Cause for Hammermen (Jam.) In bachlying of the Hammyrmenis work..and dishonouring of our said burgh. c 1550 Sir J. Balfour Practicks (Jam.) He at ane inconvenient time bauchlit and reprovit. |