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Use in varieties of Scots

furbye Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.1 0 29.8 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences62 0 3 0 0 1
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of furbye in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Furbye aw that, he's ma pal. on page 13

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Furbye aw that, he’s ma pal.
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
fuel pump and a piston brokk, furbye." on page 41
s black-back hid taen a swipe furbye. on page 56
onkey ~ and a couple o horse, furbye. on page 84

3 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
, at onie rate," said Alice: "furbye, thon's naw a regular rule: y on page 118

1 matches

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