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Use in varieties of Scots

boattle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.2 20.2 3.2 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences4138 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors12 9 2 1

Occurrences of boattle in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
: bit this time she fun a wee boattle oan it, ("that wisnae here af on page 12
an tied roon the neck ae the boattle wis a paper label, wae the wi on page 13
when her eye fell oan a teeny boattle that wis staunin near the loo on page 34
ucky fir Alice, the wee magic boattle hid hid its full effect, an s on page 35
wir giein it somehin oot ae a boattle. They aw made a rush at Alice on page 40

10 matches

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Add salt an pepper an the boattle o Burgandy (aw o it, mind; if on page 69

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae painkillers alongside the boattle ae Smirnoff vodka oan the cof on page 13
ae become tae reachin fur the boattle. It's like when we're bairns on page 18
fold easier than the biggest boattle joab yuv ever met in yur puff on page 130
desire tae crack open another boattle. In the faint hope it might b on page 131
he front door ah find that ma boattle ae vodka and ciggies huv been on page 142
Also on pages 144, 153, 173
10 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
day ae the week. Ah've goat a boattle in the freezer fur efter dinn on page 172
wearin a trackie an carryin a boattle ag tonic an automatically hin on page 176

2 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
hisky: 'Twelve and a tanner a boattle . . . ' the schmaltzy auld co on page 72

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e perforated lid ay the gless boattle ay Irn-Bru fae the bucket tha
s it again, gently liftin the boattle up, still burnin the hash as
moke swirlin aboot inside the boattle, trapped in its gless prison.
oady. Ah see an empty Mad Dog boattle at the side ay the path an in
lunge it right intae him. The boattle leaves ma haun, spinnin an wh
5 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
oan the coalie boattle
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Polis are thick as shite in a boattle and couldnae see that the mur
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ere he’s been crowned wae a boattle or skelped wae a hauf brick o
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ah cloack him. Jist like some boattle merchant contestant who choke
ae laxatives intae his water boattle right before the big race. Me
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
he carton. He then places the boattle back inside the fridge before
nallin tae the ever decreasin boattle ae whiskey. Ah casually pour
t that’s a four hunner quid boattle ae whiskey sittin there. She
3 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
Wilkins has already ordered a boattle o win(2020) search twitter

Doric

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
wbdy wiz at it. Proved ye hid boattle. Ye wirnae a feardy. Key wiz
1 matches

TheChielMeister Philomena and Alcohol, (youtube.com 2010) Doric, poetry
nd the mooth that's roon' the boattle weel that's mine
1 matches

Ulster

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Gas frae a tank or boattle
1 matches

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