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The word 'nyaffs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nyaffsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.966
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 31.4 1 1
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 nyaffs in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
went gyte owre a bunch o wee nyaffs that gat up an bummed on aboo on page 75

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ster. Whit's up? Huv thae wee nyaffs been chuckin soggy bits at ye on page 77

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
entitlement-driven, faceless nyaffs in Whitehall - be they polit on page 113

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
OOT MA ROAD, NYAFFS! on page 3

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
. They leeve fir the 'bants'. Nyaffs. (2020) twitter link

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
ad his fair share of critics, nyaffs an nyirs nyitterin at him tha on page 33

1 matches

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