shauchling

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English

Verb

shauchling

  1. present participle and gerund of shauchle

Adjective

shauchling (comparative more shauchling, superlative most shauchling)

  1. Shambling.
    • 1861, Blackwood's Magazine - Volume 89, page 217:
      But I canna help laughing to think that the lang shauchling Yankee has been sae cleverly let in.
    • 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Weir of Hermiston:
      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.
    • 1973, Edwin Morgan, From Glasgow to Saturn, page 96:
      It digs its pits to a shauchling refrain.