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Use in varieties of Scots

chuckle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 4.8 1.6 0 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences119 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of chuckle in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
The lads aw huv a wee nervous chuckle, lookin at each other. Ah've on page 11

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae the kitchen and huv a soft chuckle tae masel: "Boays will be boa on page 40
relief. He jist gees a faint chuckle and seems tae appreciate and on page 78
"Ah make you sick?" ah chuckle. on page 136
This threat gees me a soft chuckle. "And what um ah gonnae hear, on page 146

4 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
it ah wisnae concerned. A wee chuckle escaped mah lips as ah stared
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Craigy hus a chuckle tae himself ‘’Bruce kin g
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
aw this and had tae hae a wee chuckle! xxx http://t.co/cKEDuuQdRk(2014) search twitter
ay!!!! Hope it gies you a wee chuckle xxx http://t.co/fw9lpTpYuk(2014) search twitter

Doric

@FaeFoggie tweeted
This made me chuckle. Fit wi nae fitba supporters (2020) search twitter

Southern

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
@thecarolemalone Yer havin a chuckle ain't yeh https://t.co/Bd6jxj (2022) twitter link