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The word 'shooglie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shooglieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83214
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 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 22.6 17 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
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 shooglie in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
some shooglie, radio-active nursery rhyme; on page 9

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
nes. Nae jist the sizzens wis shooglie –– aa the bairns wis ooto
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
aaled doon, an rolled aff the shooglie frame his landlady hid the br on page 29

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
lin tae pou hissel up ontae a shooglie chyre, bit no makkin it up. on page 97

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@shooglie Nithing ti girn aboot(2020)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
mair like a bubbly bairn, wi shooglie knees, feart o the wund and h on page 5

1 matches

(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
l in Glesca, wi some een mair shooglie cleeks than afore, an a stran
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ragraphs maun shuirlie be the shooglie nail his veracity faws doon f
nd an anither threat tae thon shooglie nail that hauds the union the
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
he Union's no hingin on sic a shooglie nail as that?
1 matches

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
thir connecks are whyles gey shooglie. Nae maitter whit, thae weeks on page 56

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
r nuptial pleisures ahint the shooglie sheep-hurdle, spannin their e on page 50

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
ither tongue is nae mair as a shooglie auld rickshaw, a thing that j on page 3

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ke aw awfie auld folk, he wis shooglie and shilpit, and durin the da on page 12
Shooglie at first but clearer and clea on page 151

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
BOAK, SAIR NEBS, SHOOGLIE SHANKS, BUBBLYJOCKITIS, EGG T on page 28
got tae its feet. It wis gey shooglie. It wis makkin unco groozlin on page 54
didna say a word. He felt gey shooglie. He kent somethin mervellous on page 104

3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
wi the "eemis" - the slicht, shooglie aff-step fae it that is Scots on page 4

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
irled roond and roond until a shooglie spring lowped richt oot the b on page 105

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
genealogy micht gie us a gey shooglie idea o whit Pechtish society
1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Whuppity Stoorie, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
"Ma first guess is Shooglie Wooglie," said the young wife
1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
Jist then a shooglie tricycle wi buckelt wheels sh
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ie, weel-kent, peelie-wallie, shooglie, or high heid yin.
ht’, ‘yer jaiket’s on a shooglie peg’, ‘facts are chiels t
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
endent – and, ultimately, o shooglie quality. Tae be ‘scunnertâ€
big wigs’ – is faur mair shooglie nor ‘high heid yins’ in t
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
‘echoic’ o Montgomerie (a shooglie threap in itsel), it is sicca
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ie tae owerset the Scots term shooglie intae a guid yin-wird English
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
flirty flimsy dod o shooglie fruit, on page 77

2 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Sae, laith, Tib sclimt on the shooglie cairt,
1 matches

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