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The word 'cute'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cuteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.74429
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.6 10 6
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 17.4 13 9
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cute in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
uat Oh my goodness dat’s too cute!! (2020) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ll o seein da Mousa Forest ?? Cute trees. If I mind right, dir's(2020)
mesmerising peerie birds. And cute.(2016)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
car. It was purple. I died of cute. #TooCute (2019) twitter link
n fae V at school daday!! Too cute!! #artsandcrafts… https://t. (2017) twitter link

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
cute ee. on page 28

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Ye're affa cute - there is nae doot Jist loo on page 15

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Cute hedgehog painted steen £9 fa(2017)
Cute guinea pig painted stones fro(2017)
Sae ah socht fur ae wi nyakit cute babes - here’s Miss January(2019)

General Northern

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
ou’re saying, but it’s so cute. She laughs again. Come on! C
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
sees me she 2es ma yin ae her cute smiles. on page 83
rabbin anyhing she thoat wis "cute" or "adorable". Through gritt on page 152
"He's so cute" she squeals. on page 154
thum a dirty look tae "That's cute, Aldo. Ah''ll lit that yin go on page 183

4 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ee bit at her - she wis awfy cute. I wid hae smiled maiur if Bi on page 73

1 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Does Scotland compare weil wi ither places fir wee bairnies?, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
t that wis, if oniehing, ower-cute fir public consumption. The b
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
dia as long as it’s couthy, cute, an associated wi Kailyardism
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
n an appealing manner. He wis cute, richt enough, mostly black i
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
s at livvy m8 - cos ee hud a cute smile lol (2020) twitter link
been a while since a seen his cute wee face - laddies got a luv (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
The puppies wur really cute. Thir half Newfoundland an ha on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
arenae oniethin like the wee, cute diaphanous-wingit craturs o V on page 29

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"Och, it wis awfy cute, but!" said Alice, as she lea on page 42

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
how she wis so chubby and so cute. on page 38
Everything wis cute tae them. Glittery pencil cas on page 39

3 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
cute you.- on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A'm no here as somehin cute fur you tae just abuse, on page 26

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
er than last year. That's hur cute doon hur hours in Tesco, so s on page 11

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
arld. Aiblins this fashes oor cute fowk in Embro maist. on page 121

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
fries scriever J. L. Waugh in Cute McCheyne (1917): ‘We should
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
lferLegge Seeing ma wee man's cute face. https://t.co/oppkKS9bmR(2020)
WeeRedHead That pups got that cute look nailed, I bet you had ta(2020)

@ionafyfe tweeted
ackintosh That cheered me up! Cute dug. Name?(2019)

@jax6754 tweeted
@ericcolsen cute! An now wee ? you prob canae (2014)
obancroft Aye but still looks cute! A dinae when a hae a bad hai(2014)
@RealChrisPowell Cute picture! Richt finally goin t(2015)

@Chazzbat tweeted
rd @simonfromharlow She's sae cute! ??(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
if Steve in it! He he! He so cute!(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Cartmill, Claire Three score years an ten, (Ballymoney and Moyle Times 2014) Ulster, newspaper
I know they’re cute withoot gane oot ... it’s o
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A quare fella, cute as a gully, a heid as fou on page 49

1 matches

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