bauchles

Verb

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

1. (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
2. (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

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