verb

• (Scotland) To misuse, to bungle.
  "Our enemies were disputing not far off upon the deck, and that so loudly that I could hear a word or two above the washing of the seas. “It was Shuan bauchled it,” I heard one say."
• (Scotland) To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
  "An echo of "bauchling" lingered on, it seemed to me, in Cumbrian rural police courts until a few years ago. Nowhere else, as a court reporter, have I heard so much abusive interruption and blasphemous invocation from the public benches during the hearing of cases. Cumbrian magistrates dealt with it most tolerantly."

noun

• (Scotland, chiefly in the plural) An old shoe.
  "1842, Laird of Logan, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, issue 481, page 104. We a' ken that there's tongues in heads, but I ne'er heard o' ony in hats or bauchles afore."
• (Scotland) A fool.
  "He adds, probably his letter would be propaled and made a bauchle of, and assures them he was never loved at Court as a minister."
• (Scotland) A bungled or muddled situation; a mess.