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The word 'bastert'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bastertOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.892
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bastert in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
that wis tae mention ‘ thon bastert Churchill.’ Mind, awb’dy
Mind, awb’dy cried him thon bastert Churchill. Aw barrin Wullieâ€
urchill athoot pittin ‘thon bastert’ afore it. Ay, thon wis wan
workin cless. Stertin wi thon bastert Churchill, Tories, Royalty an
tained it wis aw adae wi thon bastert Churchill an the Tories. Bit
5 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
tap aff. He's wan bitter wee bastert, hell-bent on it. His big cuz on page 8
'HAW YOU, YA ELD ALKY BASTERT! LOOK AT YI WALKIN UP THERE W on page 14

2 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Best thing ye cuid dae, boss. Bastert baist.' on page 17
y baist ... Shuid hae lit the bastert hing.' on page 18

2 matches

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