单词 | bauchle |
释义 | bauchlebachlen. 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. Scottish. Obsolete. transitive. To subject to disgrace or ignominy, treat with contumely, vilify; = baffle v. 1, 2; also absol. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1600v.1488 |
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