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The word 'flooery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flooeryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 flooery in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
cairds an pickit oot a yallow flooery een wi a grain o glitter ower
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
r new tweed skirt an her best flooery bloose. Hit wis sicca occasio
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
wis stoot an waarm an wore a flooery overall. The lang simmer days on page 66
, es she sut ersel doon oan a flooery cane settee. She sighed es sh on page 81

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n teen oot a bonnie bottlie o flooery-smellin perfume. She dabbit i on page 65
a her tiny figir encased in a flooery cross-ower overall, happin a on page 90

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
tay in their chippit mugs or flooery cheena cups.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
he baker liftit her up in his flooery skelp o a haun, an pressed he
1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
flooery tablecloots laid oot aa bonni on page 34

1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
e an wearin a bricht colourt, flooery frock whit gaed in an oot it on page 27

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
in a flooery dress, treh that ane dude on page 46

1 matches

General Central

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
in a pink flooery frock on page 61

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
huv tae make dae wi the same flooery, cream apron. Ah'd been fruit on page xxi

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
omfortable bahookie clad in a flooery peeny. on page 58

1 matches

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