shauchlyadj.
/ˈʃɔːxli/, /ˈʃɔːkli/, U.S. /ˈʃɔkli/, /ˈʃɑkli/, /ˈʃɔxli/, /ˈʃɑxli/, Scottish English /ˈʃɔxlɪ/ Scottish.
Infirm, rickety, shaky. Of a person: Unsteady in gait. (Cf. shackly adj.)
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > unsteady
staggering1575
tottering1801
shauchly1830
staggery1836
dotty1870
lurching1884
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety
seely1562
crazy1583
ramshackled1675
creachy1715
rickly1715
rickety1741
palsified1775
shackling1790
ramshackling1815
paralytic1824
rackety1824
rattletrap1824
cocklety1828
ramshackle1830
shickery?1833
shackly1843
shattery1844
shaky1850
ramshackly1857
cockly1859
rachitic1864
ruckly1866
tumble-over1883
palsied1889
rattle-bag1896
shauchly1896
bockety1902
ruggy1929
rickety-rackety1931
ropy1942
1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 841 I think I see him..wi' that wee shachly body the Marquis o' Winchester, and that great big muckle John Bull, Sir William Curtis.
1896 D. S. Meldrum Grey Mantle 272 Hey! for another ride in a shauchly gig, down the pitch-black roads!
Derivatives
ˈshauchliness n. unsteadiness.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > tottering > quality of being tottering or unstable
unstaidnessa1586
unsteadiness1611
labascencya1656
wobbliness1861
shauchliness1887
1887 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends xxi. 162 They had a limp shauchleyness aboot their legs that suggestit [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1830