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单词 bauchle
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bauchlebachlen.

Brit. /ˈbɔːx(ə)l/, /ˈbɔːk(ə)l/, /ˈbax(ə)l/, /ˈbak(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈbɔk(ə)l/, /ˈbɑk(ə)l/, /ˈbɔx(ə)l/, /ˈbɑx(ə)l/, /ˈbæk(ə)l/, /ˈbæx(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈbɔx(ə)l/, /ˈbax(ə)l/, Irish English /ˈbɒːx(ə)l/, /ˈbæx(ə)l/
Etymology: Etymology unknown; ? connected with bauch adj.
Scottish and Irish English (northern).
1. An old shoe used as a slipper, or worn down at the heel, which causes the wearer to shamble.
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1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems Pref. 4 Thro' my auld bachle peep'd my muckle tae.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer II. 33 My sins are jist like muckle bauchles upo' my feet, and winna lat me [come].
2. A shambler, a ne'er-do-well.
ΚΠ
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. II. 195 He'll be but a bauchle in this world and a backsitter in the neist.

Draft additions March 2019

1. A mess, a muddle; (hence) a source of ridicule or derision, a laughing stock. Chiefly (and earliest) in to make a bauchle of: to treat with disrespect; to botch or bungle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a state of confused disorder
feery-fary1535
puddle1587
bauchle1600
vertigo1702
whemmel1817
mull1821
mix-up1841
scrimmage1852
embroilment1856
hash-up1860
brangle1865
mucker1867
unplight1876
car wreck1877
mix1882
mess-up1902
stirabout1905
pot mess1914
boorach1928
balls-up1929
muck-up1930
balls1938
box1941
Chinese fire drill1943
snafu1943
foul-up1944
screw-up1950
snarl-up1960
tiswas1960
bumble-bath1965
clusterfuck1969
headfuck1983
car crash1992
katogo1994
dumpster fire2008
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule
hethinga1340
japing-stickc1380
laughing stock?1518
mocking-stock1526
laughing game1530
jesting-stock1535
mockage1535
derision1539
sporting stocka1556
game1562
May game1569
scoffing-stock1571
playing stock1579
make-play1592
flouting-stock1593
sport1598
bauchle1600
jest1606
butt1607
make-sport1611
mocking1611
mirtha1616
laughing stakea1630
scoff1640
gaud1650
blota1657
make-mirth1656
ridicule1678
flout1708
sturgeon1708
laugh1710
ludibry1722
jestee1760
make-game1762
joke1791
laughee1808
laughing post1810
target1842
jest-word1843
Aunt Sally1859
monument1866
punchline1978
1600 R. Bruce Let. 22 Sept. in App. to Bk. Universall Kirk Scotl.: 1597–1603 (1845) 1060 I know my letter shall be made a bachle of.
1793 ‘T. Thrum’ Look before ye Loup 19 Our parliament, sic as it is, Harry, is no' to mak' a bauchle o'.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xi. 124 It's [sc. stealing cattle] better than war; which is the next best.., though generally rather a bauchle of a business.
1914 N. Munro New Road xi. 122 We have made a perfect bauchle of the business.
1946 Irish Trav. Feb. 91/1 She told him..that Mr. McIlhenna had given him the job only out of charity, an' that he'd make a bauchle of it an' lose the address of the firm in Dublin, or fall out of the train.
2000 M. Fitt But n Ben A-go-go ii. 6 Even fae ahint the Kist's metre-thick waws, Nadia MacIntyre had tried tae mak a bauchle o him.
2011 Herald (Glasgow) 2 Mar. 17/5 European inspired laws in..human rights have done demonstrably more good than harm. Which isn't to say m'learned Euro friends..haven't made a right bauchle over this latest ruling.
2. An old, decrepit, or shabby person. In later use also as a generally dismissive term: an insignificant or worthless person or (occasionally) thing.
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1820 J. Hogg Winter Evening Tales I. 282 The lassie has walth o' gear to maintain baeth the sel o' her, an' ony chop she likes to marry; and whin that's the case, I wod raether that she got a man than a bauchle.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. i. 10 Nor was [our progress] helpen by the beggarly bachle [sc. a coach] breaking down.
1926 W. Queen We're a' Coortin 24 I'll tell her whit I think..aboot her.., ay, an' aboot her man tae—the wee shauchly-leggit bauchle that he is.
1986 S. Baxter & A. Mitchell S. Baxter's Bedside Bk. Glasgow Humour ii. 4 The bachles are invariably diminutive with clothes that are a size or two too large for them.
2018 National (Scotl.) (Nexis) 18 Jan. Ah wisnae aboot tae hae them [sc. the Star Wars films] mansplained tae me bi a wee bauchle wi an egg for a profile pic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

bauchlebachlev.

Etymology: ? < bauch adj. = ‘to treat as bauch’: apparently the original or one of the sources of baffle v.
Scottish. Obsolete.
transitive. To subject to disgrace or ignominy, treat with contumely, vilify; = baffle v. 1, 2; also absol.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [verb (transitive)] > subject or expose to ignominy
bauchle1488
swinge1546
prostitute1613
post1642
gibbet1646
pillory1699
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 724 He..Rapreiffyt Eduuard..off this thing, Bawchillyt his seyll, blew out on that fals king, As a tyrand.
1496 Seal of Cause for Hammermen (Jam.) In bachlying of the Hammyrmenis work..and dishonouring of our said burgh.
c1550 J. Balfour Practicks (Jam.) He at ane inconvenient time bauchlit and reprovit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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