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The word 'smack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
smackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12616
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of smack in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
despair and earned him many a smack. on page 15
A flick o his tail hit me smack in the face on page 72

2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Da Dart shö wis a Faroe smack on page 59
'll bring a smack tae Vadlure, Waas, on page 61

2 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
e. But den it strak him lik a smack tae da head. Whaar wid he gee
oot tae give it annidder good smack, whin he noticed da grund wha
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
time she wis ooto her heid on smack, skoukin aboot the toon, chor
uppers tae dooners tae E, tae smack or tae voddie – an fyles a
2 matches

Mid Northern B

Fowler, Ross Sunday Fitba wi ma Faither, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
enough cos the bac ought him smack bang richt in his fizzog!
1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ised heich abeen his heid tae smack the baa atwards the goal: a c
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
, whan PING! - he gets it - smack dab on yon reid spatch! He lo on page 86

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
uld Jockie. Wi monie a sappie smack A'l wirk for yeir luve. (Moir on page 48

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ng wae the explosion ae cheap smack fae Pakistan which gave birth on page 89

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Speed, Es, Coke, Smack, Crack, on page 2
ei turns ti smack on page 76

2 matches

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
t th’ cauld, drookit ground smack mah face as ah fell. Ah heard
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
aboot tae gie the hedgehog a smack wae its heid, it'd somehow tw on page 81

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
se an pull oot twinty quid an smack it doon oan the table. Years on page 11

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
a bit?’ Pearcey repeats ‘Smack? Who aff?’
everthin, that cunt; charlie, smack, blues. . . you name it. Ma d
ve fitness tae the junkie’s smack ravaged body, blatantly appar
3 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
SMACK SMACK on page 16

2 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@NUFC360 Smack a dummy up his erse! Dinnae b(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ss Higgins. Miss Beatty got a smack frae Miss Higgins a wheen o w on page 40

1 matches

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