shauchling

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.