A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cleek Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10 12.3 1.5 0 0 0 31
Number of occurrences3224 1 0 0 0 7
Number of authors18 14 1 3

Occurrences of cleek 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

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
bit bairn wid want a gird an cleek: on page 22

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Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
scowe as licht as lammer, un-cleek it, an ascend on page 88

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Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
They cleek us by wir airms tae talk aboo on page 55

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Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
e pleuch, he is ower slow tae cleek the kinnens. Still and on, he on page 6

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
cleek the bucket on tae the end o t on page 181

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McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
arge aroond a rusted coatless cleek. on page 16

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
den, and he wis jist able tae cleek at the yin ower his heid as h on page 58

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
guid. Usin the metal end tae cleek ontae somethin at the tap o t on page 118
hook and hae the metal airms cleek ontae somethin. But, staunin on page 119

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McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
b threatened like a halberd's cleek on page 112

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
poet is speirin us tae see a cleek atween ryall females an thae on page 91

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
sibility an its abeelitie tae cleek wi an ken the guid o the wice
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
gie voice tae the day, is tae cleek wi ither culturs that gie a k
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
es frae Scots fowk, a certain cleek o thaim. It comes
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Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
eched an snochtert, but cudna cleek ontae Theseus. The Athenian d
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
, “Bill’s instinck is tae cleek up wi whaever is maist Ration
had an unaccoontable urge tae cleek her braid o black hair an ...
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Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ogle boukit and het up again) cleek thegither twa-three reactiona
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Cleek airms an skite wi glee -
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
but it's no easy tae see ony cleek atween language an ethnicity
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ince ma lifetime ban - its a cleek that run that deed (2021) twitter link
the word brother - its wis a cleek that got me banned - bunch o (2021) twitter link

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
mawer troots sae its guid tae cleek thaim oot an lat the
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Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
y lines frae Scotlann tuk Tae cleek tha States. on page 26
Tae brak tha cleek an grup tha sinnart bairn, on page 33

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Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An A felt tha cleek o ma ain on page 19
They cleek tha Bishop's yett. on page 33
Tae cleek thegither twa weel kenned kin on page 49

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Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
gane tae tha disco howpin tae cleek. The liked tha twa lads. The
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