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The word 'scud'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scudOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.13320
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 36.8 8 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scud in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
scud on page 42

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
use ye. Gin a chiel gie ye a scud on e lug, turn e ither een ti on page 89

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Sunti Claus scud buckle box wi aifter eicht mi(2017)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@WifieWattie Nivvir. In the scud noo, speeches hivni een start(2019)

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
tae dae yer hoose-work in the scud.
1 matches

General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
fyles an ended wi a row or a scud in the lug or fyles baith wi
1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@JimSpenceSport 4 o the scud fae the Dominie for dickin ab(2020)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
an. They stotted aboot in the scud in their cauld launds, baws a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
t. If she catches him, she'll scud his lug. But the starin wummi on page 1

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
t frae her. Bit ma mither’d scud ma lug if ah belted her again
1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
auncient Celts focht in bare scud... on page 142

1 matches

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
Scud.
Scud.
Scud. Tap. Scud. Tap…
ma nichtmerrs walked tae me…scud…tap…scud …tap…
…tap…scud …tap…
5 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
affcomes o the apocalypse wad scud me nae warse than watter aff
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
in that she seemed tae be ber-scud unnerneath.
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
™s gettin passed aboot like a scud book. ‘Ah’m Stenzo,’ he
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
@Ultach1014 @molach95 Scud fir us meant ye wir starkers. (2020) twitter link

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
up there on stage in the pure scud?" on page 88

1 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
, "The High Heid Yin's in the scud." on page 68

6 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Rhythms of Bratislava, (wordpress 2022) Central, blog
n gizz’ haid gotten a richt scud aff the Warsaw Pact, the Czec
1 matches

@LowEndJardo tweeted
catch was everyone was in the scud. CouldÂ’ve made this up but i (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
kept weel tae keep it oot the scud. on page 61

1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
shaft uses it too. 'ack, yull scud yoursel!'. Also 'scudded' as (2020)