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The word 'skoosh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skooshOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 16 12 4
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 skoosh in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
I makk eese o yer watter tae skoosh Kevin’s flooers? There’s
1 matches

General Northern

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
tiful sound it makes as you ‘skoosh’ it... ideally straight into(2020)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
e for a daud o breid and some skoosh." on page 39

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Thochts o Speakin Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2001) Central, prose
mfoonerin tae fund oot whit a skoosh it can be. Practisin thinkin
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
echnology haes noo makit it a skoosh tae hain an study gret muckle
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
n in ma hauns and stertin tae skoosh it. Or even better, a load o on page 153
blawn inside her and a muckle skoosh o smeddum wis lowsed. She tro on page 171
d and sterted again. It wis a skoosh noo tae caw up the power ahin on page 206

3 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
cafes furra wee cuppa. Skoosh case.’
1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Up gaes the skoosh, doun ti the loch, on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
irst case wis definitely no a skoosh. on page 23

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
SKOOSH! SKOOSH!!! on page 29

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
an, NAE MAIR HONKIN DEODORANT SKOOSH, GUARANTEED, it said, TAE KEE on page 21
Geordie said tae himsel, hair-skoosh and shavin-cream and shoe-pol on page 26

3 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'A SKOOSH'' on page 58
Teeger" he skraiked. 'It's a skoosh.' on page 65

3 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
ma hinnies! This yin''ll be a skoosh! Aw we need tae dae is howk a on page 44

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
it tae greet. "It wis a total skoosh, pauchlin this fortune. Noo, on page 148

1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
rs an fans o Central-European skoosh-caurs, buses an trowlybuses,
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
able fir thon o us no oan the skoosh the noo @Historic_Ally? (2020) twitter link