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The word 'fiery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fieryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42714
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 24 18 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 fiery in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
n, reed and gold, in sunset's fiery light. on page 48

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Ower mony a cauldrife, mony a fiery Alp
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
, streamin aff the law like a fiery flottila doun a muntain burn.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
teeth and beards, Demons with fiery nostrils, on page 64

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
tae watch in awe the fiery flood,
1 matches

Glasgow

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
slunk oot, but iz eyes wurnae fiery, on page 20

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
But whit aboot the muckle big fiery incinerator?' spiered Chairli on page 132

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Flew forty fiery bools. on page 50

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
nn Mons throu radar eemages o fiery heat risin aw a sudden.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. This fiery besom haed gane by Jubiter a
is a ferlie. In 1994 whan the fiery perlins swung back thay war d
akers o Scots whiles the term fiery besom is used acause the tail
yed efter the Greek god o the fiery unnerwarld Ploútōn, it is n
5 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
h they call Dragons) of a red fiery colour, appearing in the Nort
rew thochtit at the sicht o a fiery besom in the lift:
that haed a look o burnin, or fiery licht, wis seen fleein aboot
a fiery Dragon was seen flying near t
Aiblins a fiery stane fawin fae the heevens,
8 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
the maist delicate o lace. A fiery glowe risin fae thick cairpet
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
in ower tae Holland whaur his fiery passion taen aff. He wis orda

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
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South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
d been cried, a bairn wae sic fiery a heid o hair the likes ae wh on page 79

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
cud ignite yer fiery temper on page 37

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
azy dance, Clegs dart oot the fiery lance'. Dae ye ken yer wee be(2020)