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Use in varieties of Scots

scraggy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 0 9.9 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences41 0 1 0 0 2
Number of authors4 1 1 2

Occurrences of scraggy in Corpus

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Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
cordian and a fiddler wi lang scraggy hair. Tae be honest, I wis fe
1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
h widna turn me neb up at twa scraggy hens' feet ither'! (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An on Scrabba's scraggy brae and tower, on page 30

1 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
bak at tha sicht o yin o her scraggy legs, aa bluidy an cut aff ab
1 matches

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