verb/a.ʃa.le/
to annoy, harass, badger
“1945, Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion, Éditions Pascal, p. 69, (trans. Alan Brown, The Tin Flute, 1980)” — So they dun it into our ears that we gotta buy all their junk.
Related: achalant, achalanterie, achalement, réachaler
Inherited from Old French achaillir, achaloir (“heat up”), compare modern french chaloir (“to matter”) and dialectal chaler (“to heat”).