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Use in varieties of Scots

poacher Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 4.1 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences118 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of poacher in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Davie Gray the Poacher on page 82
uidnac ivver catch the Dundee poacher. Bein sae tall, strany an kin on page 84
way tae be rid o this damned poacher for once an for aw,' he annou on page 85
at the last meenit the Dundee poacher wuid think better o his commi on page 87
but Davie Gray, the fearless poacher, was nae mair and aw that rem on page 90

8 matches

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
Poacher
it wes the gamie, or anither poacher fa had the deer. But fit he k
2 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ly "Aye, he's got a gut lik a poacher's pooch."(2020) search twitter