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The word 'puggies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
puggiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8266
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 3.3 1 1
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 31.9 24 4
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 puggies in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An aet up till thoor puggies sate on page 116

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
on the fleer o the jungle wi puggies barin their teeth at ye an pa
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
ephants, leopards, ostriches, puggies the leet's as lang as yer air on page 4
'Puggies! he said. on page 61
yabblin clishmaclaivers o the puggies ower his heid. on page 62
r heid whit she had seen. The puggies were the ill-daers they had g on page 63
her een and thocht aboot hoo puggies wid pauchle bannocks. They wi on page 64
Also on pages 65, 66, 68, 72, 74, 76, 77, 78
20 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
"They're fu as puggies,' said Mr Wonka. 'They're dri on page 123

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
yatterin o puggies, ay, apes yowlin under nicht on page 29

1 matches

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
t the zoo A wis gaupin at the puggies an A thocht tae masel, "Aunti on page 118

2 matches

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