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Use in varieties of Scots

gawkin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 5.8 1.6 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1311 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors10 8 1 1

Occurrences of gawkin in Corpus

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Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
orra soops frae his tassie an gawkin roond at the company. He, tae on page 141

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e went scarlet an evrubdy wis gawkin at me. Campbell, ah said. She on page 169

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
white an peeliewallie. He wis gawkin at the crumb on the groond, a on page 14

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Hing trawls for wreaths, lat gawkin tourists murn on page 39

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Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
eryguts sat there sayin nowt, gawkin at me an slurpin soup. Whin s
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Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
muttered the last part whilst gawkin at Livvy, whose eyes were fix
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Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
wi aw these luve-seik suitors gawkin at her trainin aw the time.
pomenes stood like a stookie, gawkin.
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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
en: Planet Fankle.’ Kat wis gawkin at him.
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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
big huif, and syne wad staund gawkin at the letters wi his lugs ba
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
been impaled. He stauns there gawkin at his skewered haun, prolly
1 matches

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
€˜How are you?’ an awb’dy gawkin iz as A tried ta
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Ulster

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
slowly, wi John, Grace an Dan gawkin ahint, aa gled tae see tha ba
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