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Use in varieties of Scots

shrugged Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.5 20.7 6 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences4741 4 1 0 0 1
Number of authors19 14 3 1 1

Occurrences of shrugged 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

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
Precious shrugged her shooders. 'I jist dinna k on page 44

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Johnny shrugged. on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
new suttin ah didnae. He jist shrugged it oaf: "It'll be soond. Ah'l on page 32

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
l aboot it, she said. Ah jist shrugged. Well, she said, Yir teacher on page 20
i had yir period. Kelly Marie shrugged an then showed aff wan haun w on page 25
did you smoke. Charlene jist shrugged at me an laughed an she'd thi on page 37
oney fae somewhere. Emma jist shrugged. Huvnae seen him since we did on page 58
whit she thought an she jist shrugged an said, Leave them to it; th on page 169

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
, a dowie wee smile, and then shrugged his shooders and picked up th on page 35

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Lizzie shrugged but climbed in. That meant I on page 25
The Big Man shrugged his shooders an said, "She's on page 80

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
n his shilpit thrapple - and shrugged his patchy shooders. on page 24

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
's firm did, though Mairshall shrugged aff an initial feelin o infer on page 72

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Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Ballad o an Irish student, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Donnie shrugged, an sat in by the fire,
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Porter, Steve Lallans 74 - Gone Wi The Windae, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
Calum shrugged a bittie an turned back tae t
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Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
l aboot it, she said. Ah jist shrugged. Well, she said, Yir teacher
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Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
ontrol, an aw the usual Atlas Shrugged shite. Weel, Jedlicka had hit
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Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
oot mairryin him. But,” she shrugged, “there jist isna.”
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
She shrugged. She wis quite sure, efter aw
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
we have good contacts.” He shrugged apologetically.
Bill shrugged. “Your funeral,” he mumml
tion,” agreed Beatrice. She shrugged. “A lot could happen in tha
Beatrice shrugged. She pridit hersel that she h
Tashi shrugged. “it wis pinched,” he say
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Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
The hostler shrugged.
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Ah shrugged mi shouders. 'Weel, maybe, bu on page 8

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
mmin! Fan he cam for me Munro shrugged his shooders an said, ‘Weel
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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
shrugged his shooders an said." Och pl
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Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
man wiz sittin there. I jist shrugged my shooders and headed back t
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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
then shrugged off the raileens, on page 30

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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Daniel shrugged an leukt tae the fluir, his e on page 13

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