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The word 'leggit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leggitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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 leggit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e fit o the bed bit the fower-leggit fiend jumpit clean in atween' on page 64

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
's waist an haudin their four-leggit pal atween them. Willie gurre on page 33
aboot as muckle eese as a one-leggit mannie in an erse, kickin com on page 54
ist as disgustit as his fower-leggit freen. "Aat dug' ll aet onyth on page 72

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Minnie wis dowpit doon cross-leggit at her faither's feet, howkin
her, nae winner she's bowdie-leggit. He jist his tae tweak his ga
sair as she sat on the bowdie leggit pianie steel timmerin up the
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Sae Jenny sat cross-leggit on the goat-skin herth-rug, h
e pants tae her name, stridie-leggit an barin hir fud, like a droo
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ahin a holly tree a wee bowdy-leggit chiel wi weskit unbuttoned an on page 104

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
wuddrums wi thon o the singil-leggit sie-farin man. Bot bi nou we on page 7

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
aim juist a lad, sittin cross-leggit on a couple o auld doors for
n gaun, while Hsien sut cross-leggit agin the waa an allooed his t
2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
en she came upoan a wee three-leggit table, made ae solid gless: t on page 11

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
en she cam across a wee three-leggit table, made o solid gless: th on page 11

1 matches

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