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Use in varieties of Scots

hoat Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.1 28.2 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences5353 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors12 12

Occurrences of hoat in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
e hersel (best she could, the hoat day makin her feel awfy sleep on page 7
aught them: like, that a reid-hoat poker'll burn ye if ye haud i on page 13
the Hatter, an he pourt some hoat tea oan its neb. on page 69
's the pepper that makes folk hoat-tempert," she went oan, fair on page 87

5 matches

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
able in the livin room. Pipin hoat steam rises fae the dish ay s on page 13

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
chubby lad hawns me a roastin hoat can ae Tennent's. 'Wit's yer on page 10

1 matches

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
n - it had twa temperatures, hoat, an crematorium oven! I pit t on page 68

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
An it selt like cakes still hoat. on page 27

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
(Its owner's feet were hoat and bowfin.) on page 9
Bools o parritch, pipin hoat, on page 29
Fu o parritch, hoat and braw - on page 30

3 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
descendin oan the icey oan a hoat summers day. When a gaze at t on page 50
s drier than a pavement oan a hoat summers day. And ma anxiety i on page 54
is windpipe swelled up like a hoat air balloon and his eyes near on page 62
shite tae an ocean ae steamin hoat rancid piss and he kin place on page 65
started chokin oan her cup ae hoat chocolate and ah foond masel on page 71
Also on pages 115, 119, 147, 152, 161, 196
11 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
the hings. The bag feels dead hoat. Ah open it an huv a look in, on page 1

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ers efter the war wir long an hoat. Me an Thomas used tae come d on page 76

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
oot in the sun aw mornin on a hoat day and it'll no get meltit!' on page 12
the spickets in the bathroom, hoat chocolate cam poorin oot o th on page 15
ldnae melt, even in the bilin hoat sun. Then Mr Skelpneb's facto on page 18
crave rich steamin stews and hoat aipple pies and aw kinds o de on page 46
warkers are used tae an awfie hoat climate! They cannae thole th on page 70
Also on pages 75, 82, 108, 119, 140, 159
17 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
t summed up Italy, decadence, hoat countries, an bad things folk on page 46

1 matches

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
it's hoat
1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
Ain hoat day, Jennet hyd byn gaun aboo
her business when she wis too hoat. She kent the hills well and
2 matches

Lochhead, Liz Ashet, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
for reheatin (o aye, in a gey hoat oven!)
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
able in the livin room. Pipin hoat steam rises fae the dish ay s
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
and dooners. That’s when a hoat plate catches ma attention. I
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
gested ten ae ma faithurs rid hoat vindaloos. It wis a mess, a r
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
turned Leith intae a roastin hoat day in Barbados. It’s prope
1 matches

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