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The word 'jobby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jobbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3147
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 jobby in Corpus

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Orkney

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
??GOOGLY?? EYES ??ON ??THE ??JOBBY (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
t, an dowpit doon in the roch jobby stibble o the sheared park, a
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
irdich Wid, dreepit her green jobby branches doon tae
hey na gaed “BANG” on its jobby leaves. The gowd
jobby, wi whin busses an orrals o a
3 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
'I cuttit a buss o jobby gorse and stappit it up aneth on page 51

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
oan, she said, Big Jamie The Jobby Jabber. on page 98

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
A gemme that some them, like Jobby-heid Cameron, Torn-puss Osbor on page 54

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
, and she jist took a massive jobby oan it. Come tae fink o it, s on page 7

3 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
: Vulva the Dragon) and ‘Mr Jobby’ the handyman (in Scotland:
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@SaorAlba59 Bon Jobby(2020)

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