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Use in varieties of Scots

luckin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.4 6.4 0 19.9 11.6 0 4.8
Number of occurrences1813 0 2 2 0 1
Number of authors9 5 1 2 1

Occurrences of luckin 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

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Strangers in toon, twae guid luckin lassies at that. Lik Twiggy a on page 76
id, up there on the outskirts luckin doon on the rest o us, leevin on page 78
You were a sorry luckin wummin when they put him in t on page 79

5 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
aggle o’ folk in the queue, luckin ivry bit lik yin ae the Cyber
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
ntae a fist Aye, hings wurnae luckin’ a’ that great.
he plate A huv tae say it wis luckin’great
2 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Siddenly, a monstrous luckin mid-field player crossit an o
din baw, tae another sinister-luckin striker.
2 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
wis accosted by several rough luckin bodies wha asked him "are ye (2020) search twitter
el, they're definitely better luckin ??(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
wis accosted by several rough luckin bodies wha asked him "are ye (2020) search twitter

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Aye you wir a fine luckin man. on page 130
A bonny luckin chap on page 131

2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
wi a hoidy-hol for queer luckin wirds on page 19

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
An ey wi saft an luckin wirds is vaamed him
1 matches

Ulster

Watson, Audrey Yarns 3 - The Tay Meetin, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Fermanagh, prose
scannin the room fer a good luckin fella oor at lest wan that’
1 matches

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