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Use in varieties of Scots

bloke Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 6.9 14.4 19.9 0 10.9 0
Number of occurrences2513 9 2 0 1 0
Number of authors17 10 5 1 1

Occurrences of bloke in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hese bawbags huv cornered the bloke as if he's goat a weapon ae m on page 124

1 matches

Robb, Fraser Lallans 61 - Jimmy Bond, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, weans
Was the bloke Jim cried Odd Job. on page 9

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
, he looked a really holy wee bloke. In fact whin ma daddy an Lar on page 44

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
sound-proofing foam, and tech bloke fir one of they websites that
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
He's a couthy bloke wi a muckle mooth,
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
s daein, even though ah’m a bloke. We’ve fooled aroond before
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
it’s obvious whit mob the NL bloke that pit this oot wants ??tae(2020) search twitter
od ?? commentary and awe. Tap bloke ??(2020) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
ssies’s pissed aff. The auld bloke thinks, “At ma age, Ah’ve n(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah cannae staund bloke's like Daniel. Treatin Nicky (2020) search twitter
on Netflix, an thinkin, "that bloke soonds like Raj fae The Big B(2020) search twitter
s inside the TubeTube(!) This bloke's a tube! ?? https://t.co/UPR(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
top as u ken guys - crackin bloke (2020) twitter link

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Let me enlichten ye aboot the bloke in the coffin. Ee caz imsel, on page 40

2 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
unt. "Na, na," says she, "yon bloke wis turned tae steen lang ago on page 35

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
"It's fit a brainy bloke like yersel wid caa a misnome on page 88

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
straint nae tae react tae the bloke wittering mince that this is (2022) twitter link
? I could see Broon telling a bloke tae get tae fuck and nae pit (2021) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
re was a bit of a crash. Some bloke seems to have jist his arm.(2012) search twitter
ted burst radiator at 1.09am. Bloke oot n temp repaired it by 2am(2011) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ng wi traivlin' licht. Proper bloke.(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Ah'm the bloke on the owld grey Fergie, in t on page 83

2 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@DrewLawDesign As Deaf bloke, a feel 10 isnae enough! Shou(2020) search twitter