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The word 'cleuks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cleuksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6189
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 cleuks in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ikers o reed nails like cats' cleuks. on page 80

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ry as the kittlin groomin its cleuks at the barn door, or the rodd
an tried tae cleuk her wi its cleuks.
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ry waas luikit like warlock's cleuks. Abune, the cloods war meers'
r nieves somelike a labster's cleuks, aa reid an big jyntit. She w
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ykit the girse frae aneth his cleuks bi the bonnie wee craw didna
dens. He poored in hoolets’ cleuks an
sofa wi ma cleuks.”
an scrattit the fleer wi her cleuks. “Tuck... tuck-tuck...
pinged oot her cleuks, an spat wi rage at her veesi
5 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Wa wonderin fit it hid in its cleuks (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
un outstreikit wi fingirs lik cleuks an tuik the gowd pendice at h
cleuks wi the wairmth o hir ain bodi
2 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
t doon the mittens ower baith cleuks an neshed the hoodie o the sn
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Tho his cleuks cairved deep, an his birsies on page 46

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ld gaun, gruppit ticht in the cleuks o her feem. As thair faither on page 27

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
(Their cleuks get awfy maukit.) on page 18

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
pit hauns, aw snorlt like the cleuks o some
1 matches

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