bauchle

Scotch and connected with bauchle; but cf.

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.”

And ye needna tell me: it’s better than war; which is the next best, however, though generally rather a bauchle of a business.

“You maun hae made an awfu’ bauchle of it.

He hasna a bauchle to swear by.