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Use in varieties of Scots

bawd Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 1.5 6 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences93 4 0 0 1 1
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of bawd in Corpus

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Central

Briggs, Susi Atween the lines o Muirland Meg, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Peyd tae the bawd hoose, yet imprisoned wi debt
And debt tae the bawd hoose keeps ye doon on yer kn
The bawd hoose mannie is coining it in
3 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ds frae her taes, a lane grey bawd teetit roon at her frae the n
re, the fermfowk caad it 'The Bawd', fur they thocht that the sp
o't, a great grey ghaist o a bawd, like the lang-shanked lang-l
afore stertin up again like a bawd racin. Minnie hid niver met D
4 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
"Get tae eer places!" bawd oot th Queen in a voice o thu on page 81

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
, "whin the Queen jumpt up an bawd oot 'Hae's killin the time! A on page 72

1 matches

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