bauchle, bachle, bachel ( ch guttural, chle as chel)

[Etym. doubtful, perhaps from bauch (qv.).] 1. Lit .: An old shoe used as a slipper. "Through my auld bachle peep'd my muckle toe," Taylor: Poems , p. 4. (Jamie son.) 2. Fig .: Whatsoever is treated with contempt or disregard; a ne'er-do-well. (a) To mak a bauchle of anything = to use it so frequently and familiarly as to show that one has no respect for it. (b) To mak a bauchle of a person = to treat him as the butt or the laughing-stock of a company. bâu-chle, bâ'-chle (chle as chel), v.t. [BAUCHLE, 8.] To distort, to vilify. ( Jamie son .)