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The word 'slabbery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slabberyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
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
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 56.2 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of slabbery in Corpus

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ney stared intae the wumman's slabbery grey een, and she let the sil on page 89
t! Ya tattie-heidit torag! Ya slabbery snotter!' She wis noo staundi on page 142

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
ulfin tha burns, or maggin in slabbery slaps. on page 50

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
er Scots aiblins maggs in the slabbery sheuch atween "language" an " (2015) twitter link
@SurrealThing It's a slabbery sheuch that lies atween leid (2014) twitter link
s2100 @SadisticMark There's a slabbery sheuch atween dialect an lang (2015) twitter link
in up tae its oxsters in thon slabbery, clabbery sheuch atween "lang (2014) twitter link