bauchle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
noun
An old shoe.
noun
A fool.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Maybe that shot that ye think ye bauchled was the most providential shot ye ever fired..."
- "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 most tolerantly."
- "1842, Laird of Logan, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, issue 481, page 104. We a' ken that there's tongues in heads, but I ne'er heard o' ony in hats or bauchles afore."
- "He adds, probably his letter would be propaled and made a bauchle of, and assures them he was never loved at Court as a minister."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, bafouer