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The word 'geets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
geetsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8269
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 42.5 13 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 32.8 3 1
DOR - General Northern 44.3 10 5
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
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)
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 geets in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
life At hame wi a squatter o geets on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
A gaggle o geets rin by an chases awa the memo on page 45

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
st hid eneuch and gid for the geets like a rhino and in nae time
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Mind geets aifter Sunti Claus has corrie(2014)
If yon geets hurl anither snaba aat ma win(2017)
Quick geets, Tesco Ellon hiv laid on a fr(2017)
dads fa cherish an lo'e their geets an grandgeets unconditionally(2018)
Guid luck tae aa the geets gyan back tea skail here in S(2018)
and 5 other occurrences.

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
there, sure aneugh, wi aa the geets b' her side; but the three of on page 25
t aff wi the bairn. The manse geets skitit in an oot the fock as on page 27

2 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
hocht it was some ill-trickit geets; but young eens wad nivver ha on page 89

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Aa i'geets lach at him ahent his back on page 126
She waks i'geets an maks sure they're washed on page 132
Lady Cadona geets a ower yer feet, on page 148
Wi' a pair o' geets rinnin through i'hoose o' San on page 156

5 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - A Wird i Yer Lug, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
t till a Nor-east ee (bairns, geets or littlans bein mair eeswal
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@DeesideDon Are the geets wee them?(2020)
@STVNews Are a the geets coming ina(2020)

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
st, we’d say “bairns” or “geets”. The only time I’d use “w(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
abeen e' muntlepiece. Keep e' geets awa fae e' fire sine.(2018)

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