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Use in varieties of Scots

spraffin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 3 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences66 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 5

Occurrences of spraffin in Corpus

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Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
- whether it's canvassin, or spraffin tae ither fowk, or puttin up
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
chattin Patois in Jamaica an spraffin Scots in Scotland are regarde
while the rest o us are busy spraffin aboot the fairer, mair equal
2 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ot a fuckin scooby whit their spraffin oan aboot, but they magnanimo
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
harley @redditships Ah wisnae spraffin tae ye.(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
Whit's the difference atween spraffin, bletherin, haiverin, slaveri (2018) twitter link

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