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The word 'hunkie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hunkieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.5216
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 52.3 16 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
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) 12.5 1 1
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 hunkie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
" Winnie dichtit er een wi er hunkie, 'things hivna bin great atwe on page 14
Dottie, dichtin er moo wi er hunkie an pullin a paper cuttin oot on page 71
Fobie pulled oot is hunkie an dappit it is een es Bella on page 75
," said Betty, spittin oan er hunkie an dichtin awa fit wis left o on page 85

4 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
, onywye." He unfaaled a fite hunkie an offert ma a tart-tastin on page 44
antelle." Ronnie teen oot his hunkie an dichtit an dabbit it the s on page 60
ace, sorts her hair, sticks a hunkie up her sleeve an aat's her ri on page 64
ion." She dabbit her een wi a hunkie. "And half of what happened's on page 76
amara wailin intill her sypin hunkie. Ah'd read an article aboot f on page 77
Also on pages 79, 80
8 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he cried, spittin't intull er hunkie. "It's affa sattie. Fit the h on page 31
ddit again, fannin issel wi's hunkie: the place wis gettin hetter on page 41
attempts, Ah munage te pull a hunkie fae the string bug at's hingi on page 46

4 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
'Na,' she said, pittin a hunkie ti her een, 'nae eence - thr on page 38

1 matches

General Northern

Skinner, Alison C. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Leaves, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
gaithert weet an stappit in a hunkie inside on page 22

1 matches

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Heidy wis leavin, haudin his hunkie till his lug, he says tae Jim on page 51

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Gan ti be het then. Knotted hunkie on ma heid then(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 73 - A Whein Auld Chinese Saws, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
g up a sign sayin: 'Awthing's hunkie- on page 83

1 matches

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