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The word 'wattery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
watteryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.31713
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wattery in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
face noo as malleable an wattery as the rest o us. on page 7

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wattery sun on page 93

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Nae wattery swittle, nae föshionless brà on page 107

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s floatin aboot in some kinna wattery broon bree. on page 18
t's a helluva peer turn oot." Wattery winter sinlicht slantit throw on page 74

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Tamara attempted a wattery smile. on page 76

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
raither than sikk oot tae the wattery, bein feart o Miss McFarlan.
e ran far the sun catched the wattery treelips o sna bree, garrin t
2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Michty. Nithin wirse that yon wattery teeth. ?? ??(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
toilet, sometimes ca'ad 'the wattery', an the Express wisna pit on on page 72

1 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
rty, wi nae electrick, an the wattery at the bottom o the gairden. on page 8

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Then ah hear a horrible, wattery sound. Like emptyin a tin ae on page 14

1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Anither wattery skailin shower on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
he had feenished his supper o wattery kail soup, Chairlie ayewis ga on page 9

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
a mell o ammonia, methane an wattery ice that turns intil a thick
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
A wattery skin o sun on page 44

1 matches

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
Its a quare wattery one! Dinnae fash. Get on yer (2020)