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The word 'bigged'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
biggedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.2307
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 461.1 9 3
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 295.5 9 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 163.5 9 1

Occurrences of bigged in Corpus

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Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
asterd. Dat'll be een dat Dad bigged!
t. Past where da dess will be bigged, laid ready wi a line o palle
2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
A pig wha'd bigged a hoose o STRAW? on page 41

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
brig atween twa kintras is no bigged yet: on page 54
an bigged heivens abin drumlins." on page 58

3 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
hfrilan bes a ticht wee toon, bigged on a hill, at tha croon. on page 5
ies on Scrabo Hill an his men bigged Scraba Tooer, tha oul coort-h on page 7

2 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
p no far fae whaur Montgomery bigged his hame, sae I'd hae a daice
l decline. Belyve hooses were bigged for middle class folk wha wan
us a "peace process" that was bigged on the oul notion o twa trade
3 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
here frae afore tha hoose wus bigged, even”.
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Papish Croatians bigged thair ain lan on page 5
Hale cairt-fu's o bales bigged heich. on page 14
New bales noo bigged up on page 15
A Haw noo bigged on thon wee heicht The' caa W on page 22
The' bigged wi apen han forbye, on page 28
Also on pages 30, 45, 69
9 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
tha licht o tha warl. A toon bigged ona hïll cannae be hïd. Ye on page 5
haim ïs laik a wise man that bigged hïs hoose on a roak. Tha rai on page 8
o tha hïll whar tha toon wus bigged, for tae throw hïm doon heid on page 76
s like. He's like a man that bigged hïs hoose, an dug deep an se on page 80
ithers kïllt thaim but youse bigged tha monuments, sae ye maun ga on page 90

9 matches

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