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Use in varieties of Scots

bool Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 8.7 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2017 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors10 7 2 1

Occurrences of bool in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
She chores a bool o parritch aits. on page 34

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ctually a ruddy muckle cannon bool on the end o a lang bit o wir on page 104

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
boak-makkin nor a kilt-clad, bool-in-the-mooth, Eton-eddicated on page 84

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
riz up oot o the bed and his bool o soup gaed fleein intae Gran on page 57
ood hooch o joy and flung his bool o chappit hairy-oobits oot o on page 81
it gaed phut, a muckle green bool drapped oot o it intae a cree on page 100
en papingo and a turtle and a bool o gowdfish and a cage o white on page 127

5 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
i can gie a bool o porridge on page 29

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
e warkin clesses, an that the bool in the mooth RP vices o the u
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah roll ma bool, cleanly wae a good curling a
He sends his bool oot tae the left - a corrie
ddle it goes, smashin Tam’s bool wae a glancing blow, sendin i
Ah let him take his shot. His bool trundles up the green taeward
4 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Sanct Hub’s, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
tae gang alang wi the bool-in-the-mou anes.
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
t wis yer word for a braw big bool, or a totie wee bool. In Gaws(2020) search twitter

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
They're aa sae bloomin bool-in-the-mooth "Lauch aa ye lik on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ome in, ladies!" A wifie wi a bool in er moo cam te the door. "E on page 72

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
r entities): boolik 'pimple' (bool + - ik) on page 42

1 matches

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