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Use in varieties of Scots

wanker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 6.9 3.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1513 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of wanker in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
uld be heard softly mutterin "Wanker". Tae avoid causin another re on page 31
him, Caroline. What a fuckin wanker." on page 80
k. Ah'm no messin likes, this wanker looks like he's yin cauld awe on page 125
you've become a middle-class wanker. Fur fuck sake, yae dress lik on page 136

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he men's and just called me a wanker for trying to help him up off on page 13

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Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
“‘S a wanker,” Ah ay thought - bit Ah h
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Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
McDade sais, gien thum the “wanker” haun signal.
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘He’s goat gear? Wee wanker, he better be here somewhere.
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ma place as the prized fuckin wanker ay the piece whilst simultane
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Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Aye, a wanker’s right enough, an ah conce
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
The fuckin wanker ah’m waitin oan - Derek. .
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grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
—Ah did think ay that, wanker, ah reach across the couch an
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
oranger than 'Bru. And making wanker gestures. https://t.co/tSQlnP(2020) search twitter

Doric

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
oceeds ! Divvy up ye mean, ya wanker !“
d chairman of the PTA. Bliddy wanker! Goad kens whit hauf-baked id
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