bauchle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An old shoe. Scotland,in-plural
    — 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.
  2. A fool. Scotland
    — 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.
  3. A bungled or muddled situation; a mess. Scotland
动词 v.
  1. To misuse, to bungle. Scotland
    — 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.
  2. To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone. Scotland
    — 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.

词形变化

bauchles present,singular,third-person bauchling participle,present bauchled participle,past bauchled past bauchles plural

词源

词源 1
From Scots, probably related to Old French bafouer (“to hoodwink”).
词源 2
From Scots, probably related to Old French bafouer (“to hoodwink”).
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