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The word 'bampots'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bampotsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bampots in Corpus

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
he Pyrenees, it wis anely the bampots, zoomers an gowks that fund t
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
the Close. Nane o thae fower bampots'll ivver get a stert wi Syme on page 26

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
It must eh been fae when the bampots left their caves n came oot t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
r-like a reinge o words frae 'bampots' tae 'neepheids' paintit ower
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
re drivin their machines like bampots, racin the motors and makkin on page 27

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
but wi some frichtsome neds, bampots an hairies amang them - Ah a on page 9

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Fowk expectin tae see primpit bampots in a frenzied farce find inst
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
wks an gypit gomerils, ye’re bampots, numpties an twatts. Ye’re a(2020)
brilliant work - sae jealous bampots will aye want tae get at ye. (2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
Only bampots will girn about BBC’s poetic(2017)

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