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The word 'ficherin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ficherinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 ficherin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ot is when some messan sterts ficherin wi this burn. Ah jist dinna l on page 84

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ished this whyle, its maister ficherin wi't, sortin the tichtness o
ttoned, an Matty's mither wis ficherin wi them.
2 matches

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2021) Doric - Fraserburgh
He wis iye at it ficherin , washin en cleanin

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ficherin has been added to our A-Z of (2014)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
omfy on his pillae. 'Noo stop ficherin aboot,' his wife said tae him on page 30

1 matches

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