“Yer nothin but a trauchle trailin on ahent like that – get yirsel yokit.”
Translate:
trachle, trauchle: a struggle, a hard time.
“You are extremely hard work trailing along behind like that – will you please make an effort.”
![[trauchle spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]](/comics/phonetics/trauchleph.gif)
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The Scottish Word: trachle with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
When I was an apprentice in the printing trade in Dundee one of the tradies thought he was a real ladies’ man. One day one of the real old guys said to me: “See that lad there, he’s trachled wi his wully”.
Brilliant!!!
Glad I’m not the only one to remember this word! In Aberdeenshire “Sair’s ma trachle” means roughly “I have a hard row to hoe”, but is often used ironically in conclusion by a person who who has been having a good moan.
We have 5 children, 2 foster children and 3 birth children – I have just put the initials of all of our names into a scrabble dictionary and we spell the word trachle, definition: an exhausting effort 😂
I love how you incorporated those great Scottish words into your illustration!