Bauchle

But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you I would have a try at her again. " ❋ Unknown (1893)

But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you, I would have a try at her again. " ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

You expects me to come and save you money and the like of that old bauchle eating up the profits. ❋ Rutherford Mayne (N/A)

Moore, Protestant and Catholic, who together lay in wait for the hated landlord and shot him as he passed through the glen; or John Murray, good man, and his bauchle of a brother? ❋ Cornelius Weygandt (1914)

And ye need nae tell me: it's better than war; which is the next best, however, though generally rather a bauchle of a business. ❋ Unknown (1893)

The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle ❋ John Wilson (1819)

Admittedly the competition isn't great: that wee bauchle Lulu; the Bay City Rollers, who always looked short on account of their shrunken tartan breeks; the aptly named Midge Ure; Wet Wet Wet, who were fond of kikicking in the gutters; and Simple Minds featuring the always crouching Jim Kerr.