bauchle
- an old worn shoe
- a worthless or clumsy person
- a useless object
- a trout-fisher's term for a perch 2
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Word Origin
C18: of unknown origin
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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.
David Balfour, Second PartRobert Louis Stevenson