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The word 'tuck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tuckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83516
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 70.9 16 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tuck in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ich were both long enough tae tuck intae his belt. He wis wearan
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
pa Flow is skyippin daday. We tuck in on page 27

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
t the fleer wi her cleuks. “Tuck... tuck-tuck...
... tuck-tuck...
tuck tucky...” she skreiched.
3 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ain up loons, fa else saw the tuck in Celebrity Big Breether an (2018)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
TUCK MAN on page 114

12 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
fower o em hid a richt gweed tuck in
it wis affa even, gey nip an tuck. Ey
2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
forrit tae a gweed tuck in. If you came awa fae this
1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
@SheltieDon Just you tuck yersel awa auld timer. One da(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
gh time . Bend its legs ower. Tuck its heid in. on page 67

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Missus Auldhill's no jist the tuck shop wummin though: she also on page 33
arlene's been actin as if the tuck shop incident never happent; on page 102
n at interval tae help in the tuck shop in place ae Harpreet, bu on page 121

3 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
t haunstauns an they used tae tuck thir skirts intae thir pants on page 76

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ed right up. The trick is tae tuck yir taps inside yir joggie bo on page 16

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
al-like); but when the Rabbit tuck a fobwatch oot o tts waistcoa on page 7

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
m they are bidden tae a Tod's Tuck-in. Then bring them aw doon h on page 49

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
in English) in his shaw 'Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD'.(2019)

@pmcm1355 tweeted
innae open an the roof disnae tuck awa in the boot tae let the w (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Whun doon come a blakbird an tuck aff her neb! on page 31

1 matches

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