shauchling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shauchle

comparative more shauchling · superlative most shauchling

1. ScotlandShambling.

   It digs its pits to a shauchling refrain.

   1973, Edwin Morgan, From Glasgow to Saturn, page 96

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   But I canna help laughing to think that the lang shauchling Yankee has been sae cleverly let in.

   1861, Blackwood's Magazine, volume LXXXIX, page 217

   And I would send no man to be a servant to the King, God bless him! that has proved such a shauchling son to his own faither.

   a. 1895 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp”, in S[idney] C[olvin], editor, Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance, London: Chatto and Windus […], published 1896, →OCLC, page 74