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Use in varieties of Scots

beuy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words21.3 0 0 645.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences660 0 65 1 0 0
Number of authors10 9 1

Occurrences of beuy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
and Beuy, wis she strang! on page 8

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Bit mercy, beuy, hid's gittan ferful dry. on page 27

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Orkney Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2015 ISBN: 978-1785300066) Orkney, weans
"A gruffalo! Beuy, dae ye no ken? on page 1
"A gruffalo! Beuy, dae ye no ken? on page 9
"Oh beuy!" he said, "Cheerio, peedie m on page 16

3 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
torn tit, he sheuk his heid. "Beuy Charlie on page 14
a thee fash theesel aboot me, beuy," I says, "Aam fine as I am, on page 15
ipe ower the back o the hand. Beuy, beuy, whut a laek hand he hi on page 16
Beuy, thoo never saa - or smelt - on page 17
"Yaas, beuy!" I answered, kennan fine tha on page 19
Also on pages 21, 70, 79, 87, 96, 97
18 matches

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
r wid Feyther wear it, Davie, beuy? on page 39

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And, beuy, did I get the surprise o me on page 2
And, beuy, will I surprise them when I on page 7
Beuy, that wis a marathon session on page 31
"Beuy, beuy - you'll hae tae get new dra on page 46
"Beuy, that is cheust the very thin on page 47
Also on pages 55, 64, 70, 73
10 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
"Whit like, beuy?" sheu says. Sheu kens fine w on page 68

1 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
or 'boy', is sometimes spelt 'beuy' an sometimes, 'buey'. Beuy, on page 8

2 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Bit mercy, beuy, hid's gittan ferful dry. on page 152

1 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Beuy, he fair got his character, on page 127
An hid meed beuy, beuy, buy Beryl. on page 135

3 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
y and Shetland parlance as ‘beuy’ and ‘lass’, and they k
1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
ayRanger @snettsbirder Sorry, beuy! Yes of course we can go thra (2020) twitter link
@orkneyrd Great stuff beuy!!?? (2021) twitter link
@GroatNews Great stuff beuy!?? (2021) twitter link
@_Stewart_Bain Sake beuy (2021) twitter link
@_Stewart_Bain Great stuff beuy! (2021) twitter link
and 18 other occurrences.

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
good eye. Fun, beuy, shovan them in true under th on page 20

1 matches

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