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shauchling

shauchling is the present participle and gerund of shauchle.

Meaning of shauchle

Verb

shauchle (third-person singular simple present shauchles, present participle shauchling, simple past and past participle shauchled)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To shamble.
    • Dr Ritchie says that he has seen a man shauchling through the shop when he scarcely knew a plane from a handsaw.1856, Debate on the Forbes Mackenzie Act, between the Rev. Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh and James H. McGuire, Esq., of Glasgow
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To distort or deform.

Adjective

shauchling (comparative more shauchling, superlative most shauchling)

  1. (Scotland) Shambling.
    • But I canna help laughing to think that the lang shauchling Yankee has been sae cleverly let in.1861, Blackwood's Magazine, volume LXXXIX, page 217
    • And I would send no man to be a servant to the King, God bless him! that has proved such a shauchling son to his own faither.a. 1895 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp”, in S[idney] C[olvin], editor, Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance, London: Chatto and Windus […]...

Forms of shauchling

comparativemore shauchling
superlativemost shauchling

Questions about shauchling

What does shauchling mean?
Shauchling means shambling.
What is shauchling the present participle and gerund of?
Shauchling is the present participle and gerund of shauchle.
What part of speech is shauchling?
Shauchling is an adjective.

Words near shauchling in the dictionary

  1. Shaub
  2. Shaubs
  3. shauchle
  4. shauchled
  5. shauchles
  6. shauchling
  7. shaugh
  8. Shaugh Prior
  9. Shaughnessies
  10. Shaughnessy
  11. Shaughnessy playoff

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