bauchled

bauchled is the simple past and past participle of bauchle.

Meaning of bauchle

bauchle (third-person singular simple present bauchles, present participle bauchling, simple past and past participle bauchled)

(Scotland) To misuse, to bungle.
- 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.1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, Kidnapped
(Scotland) To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
- 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...1972, George MacDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets, page 152

bauchled

(Scotland) Wearing cheap or old shoes.
- A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel.1898, Neil Munroe, John Splendid
- […] as he cowered in the half-lit hall the woman came in bauchled feet up the stair, and looking him full in the face laid her hand, roughened red through much scrubbing, on his shoulder.1928, St. Andrew Society, The Scots, volume 10, DC Thompson, page 407

What does bauchled mean?: Bauchled means wearing cheap or old shoes.
What is bauchled the simple past and past participle of?: Bauchled is the simple past and past participle of bauchle.
What part of speech is bauchled?: Bauchled is an adjective.

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