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Use in varieties of Scots

defiant Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 5.3 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1110 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors10 9 1

Occurrences of defiant in Corpus

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Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
same loud vyce an a wee thing defiant nou. on page 29

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
haur yestreen he had nailed a defiant declaration tae the mercat cr on page 35

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
It proodly stuid defiant in the rain on page 14

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
clan o hyenas mingled wi the defiant roar o ae lion determined tae
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
faced Iqbal. Her posture wis defiant, bit she spake quate eneuch.
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
udin Aist Lothian, an anither defiant rally roond the reid baunner
This mornin, a wabbit, but defiant Kezia Dugdale gied an intervi
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@rattlecans tweeted
boot got awfie firm and kinda defiant, finger-waving every time the (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
Are folk mair confident, even defiant aboot speakin Scots noo? #Sco (2020) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
eScottishFB loving this - be defiant guys - yous r legends lol (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
defiant in the face on page 65

1 matches

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