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The word 'shavin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shavinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 2
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 shavin in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
wir a aerosol can o SUPERFOAM SHAVIN SOPP belangin tae his faider.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
tane. Then he tried it oot bi shavin some o the hairs aff o his fo on page 86

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
bother. Sometimes I watch him shavin. Ye wunder hoo men kin dae th on page 1

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
tae the docs cos a cut masel shavin lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
shes and, efter he'd finished shavin, he gied his scaup a richt gu on page 52

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
She's startet shavin the hair under her airm pits on page 94

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ore an’ last night had been shavin’ in preparation tae go oot.
Erse-deep in shavin's,
2 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
Thrie days CB fur no shavin afore he gaed on parade: thri on page 9

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
an aerosol can o SUPER SAPPLE SHAVIN SOAP belangin his faither. Ge on page 20
d tae himsel, hair-skoosh and shavin-cream and shoe-polish are aw on page 26
in this dementit stuff - the shavin soap, the hair remover, the d on page 39
rdie cairried on ... 'And the shavin soap ... and the face cream . on page 79

4 matches

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