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The word 'fluff'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fluffOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
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 fluff in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Stue for dust and Caddis for fluff. https://t.co/3hxWPs4LX2(2020)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
affa fine stuff. I made jeely fluff a filey back. Michty me. Nae (2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
er tae deal wi the patchy bum fluff across ma jaa. This morning,
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ae the hissin, snarlin ball o fluff Jonsar Eck shoved in a hand a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Ahint him, a fluff o grey sprittled the horizon,
1 matches

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