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verb
- 1. move clumsily or with great effort: Scottish, Northern Irish "I sprauchled about with my bucket and spade"
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Sprauchle is a dialectal, British verb that means to clamber, scramble, or sprawl. It is probably of Scandinavian origin and related to words like Old Norse sprökla and Old English spearca.
Aug 20, 2023 · Verb. [edit] sprauchle (third-person singular simple present sprauchles, present participle sprauchling, simple past and past participle sprauchled) (Scotland, intransitive) To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty. Noun. [edit] sprauchle (plural sprauchles)
Verb. sprauchle (third-person singular simple present sprauchles, present participle sprauchling, simple past and past participle sprauchled) (Scotland, intransitive) To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty. 1881, David Thomson, Musings Among the Heather: Being Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:
sprackle. sprachle. spraickle. Origin & history. From Icelandic spraukla, "to sprawl". Verb. sprauchle (third-person singular simple present sprauchles, present participle sprauchleing, simple past and past participle sprauchleed) (Scotland, intransitive) To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty.
Sprauchle is not a word in the English language or in any other language. It is a possible typo for sprucely or spiracle. See how to pronounce, translate and cite sprauchle.
Sprauchle is a Scots word meaning to move or make one's way laboriously or in a hasty, clumsy manner, or a scramble, struggle, etc. It has many regional variants and is also used as a noun. See examples, quotations and sources from the Scottish National Dictionary.
Sprauchle is a Scots word that means to climb laboriously, struggle, or flounder. It is often used to describe a dog's behavior when it tries to climb a tree or a cliff. See examples and illustrations of sprauchle in context.