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The word 'wippit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wippitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7123
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 wippit in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
in a bucket an his fiddle-box wippit aboot his middle wi a bit o f on page 33

1 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
okkit a hadd o’ da spar. He wippit hit up we rop an, feelin reli
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
he ruggit on her dry mochles, wippit her scarf toon her thrapple,
p in the air whyle her mither wippit the oo roon an roon inno a ba
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
er in her hoose, wi her queat wippit up in a bandage. The sair que
lift, an wippit its towe roon a tree, syne ga
fit wis wippit roon a tree reet like a towe,
oranges lay oot on the fleer, wippit wi gowd an
its teeth tint. He wippit it roon wi paper an bummed a
7 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
k-eed prince wi her lang hair wippit aroon her. The prince spak ta on page 122

1 matches

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