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Use in varieties of Scots

cowped Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words15.1 18.7 10.5 0 0 10.3 17.7
Number of occurrences4937 7 0 0 1 4
Number of authors16 12 2 1 2

Occurrences of cowped in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 82 - Belike a Mishanter, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
niest brig in aa Peru brak an cowped five traivellers doun the cle on page 29

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
hunger and haird-yoke is ower-cowped for guid. on page 6

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
econd or twa afore it finally cowped on page 159
layed this fousome trick? Wha cowped ower this gless" on page 160
d. Naebody moved! Ye must huv cowped it ower yersel!" on page 162
e oot them and the gless jist cowped ower. on page 166
shoogle, then it teetered and cowped richt ower and landed on the on page 168
Also on pages 174, 218
10 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
auld man opened the pooch and cowped it upside doon. Oot drapped a on page 42
squirrels gied her! Ower she cowped, intae the hole heid first, s on page 131
gin doon fae the ceilin) were cowped aff their feet and fell on ta on page 138

3 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
crashed intae each ither, an cowped ower - wi gey sair heids. on page 24

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
YE FOR FIVE MEENITS. Geordie cowped it aw intae the muckle pot. on page 21
die oot lood tae himsel as he cowped in the haill bottlefu, 'the a on page 28
d a gey muckle dose o it.' He cowped aw the green peels, hunners a on page 30
ard. He taen oot the cork and cowped it aw doon the jaw-box. He th on page 36
poon weel intae her mooth and cowped the mixter doon her thrapple. on page 39
Also on pages 89
6 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
chiel should hae cam doon and cowped it ower.' on page 122
d it wis nae loss that it had cowped. 'See yon mingin bunch o pudd on page 146

2 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
baith glowered at Beek. Beek cowped anither slorp o cider, then p on page 20
'He cowped fower yestreen, Mrs Beek.' on page 69

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
a man is cowped on page 13

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
We cowped the boats, tint sea, tint dra on page 39

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Then cowped intae tha glaur, an dee'd, ba on page 23

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
the hart's forelegs. The stag cowped ower ontae the grund no able on page 15
yed a wee visit. The kirk wis cowped. The windaes were panned in. on page 18
ony further. At lang last it cowped intae a puggled heap in a big on page 19

3 matches

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 73 - Stars, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
rn, cosy in a buggy, wee heid cowped owre in sleep, on page 56

1 matches

McCabe, Alan Lallans 73 - Unsteek the Door o Ma Hert, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The michty ship his cowped its laid on page 94

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
We cowped in the graith:
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
if aw thochts o it are gettin cowped in an Aiberdeen midden the mo
1 matches

Stirling, Alison Watergaw, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
She cowped me ower
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
she'd pared an aipple hale an cowped the lang reid skin ower her l
roon her neck. The cairt wis cowped in a gairden hedge, an Minnie
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
k it feenished maitters fin I cowped the
careered ower the bows an cowped in linns alang the deck wi Bi
door ajee an cowped puir Geordie inno a pail, syp
e, he tuik doon his bankie an cowped
4 matches

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
@Historic_Ally I cowped my pushbike intae a ditch the(2020) search twitter

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
heisan the slabs back on the cowped dykes, on page 129

1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Yin was an oor-gless cowped owre on its side, on page 11
Tha Status Quo cowped on its heid: on page 40
an tha deid were cowped intae oor sheuchs. on page 56

3 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
play ocht else when ma eenies cowped an fell on the reflectors o J
1 matches

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