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The word 'clabber'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clabberOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4136
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
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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) 307.4 6 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 3
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of clabber in Corpus

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ippo pittin its fit intae the clabber on the banks o the Limpopo Ri on page 99
baith haunds were clarted in clabber. Ye should o heard her belloc on page 100
Matilda seen a narra clabber path leadin tae a toty rid-br on page 177

3 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Ah git a shooer o' clabber, on page 5

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
saa somethin keekin oot o tha clabber o tha sheuch. He put his haun on page 13
A gaed cowp-carlie in tha clabber on page 16
An wi ilka turn o tha boggy clabber, on page 20
Clocked on clabber, a tovey wheen on page 26
ted tae his oxsters in Antrim clabber; on page 50
Also on pages 53
6 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Hae ye iver bin clarried in clabber? on page 44

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
ur: I'm up tae my oxsters in #clabber! #UlsterScots (2014) twitter link

@HurchinHome tweeted
echoes in Go Set a Watchman--"clabber" and "skittering".(2015)

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