A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scruffy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of scruffy in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
oor. Violet stared aroond the scruffy wee gairden, whaur she hadnae on page 104

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah felt even mair sweaty and scruffy efter the journey.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
r the birds tae eat. He wis a scruffy wee cunt, aw skint knees an s
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
that klopp is one scruffy looking fecker - ffs laddie (2021) twitter link

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
forgotten far he bid. Wi his scruffy white trainers, tattered blue on page 76

1 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
per's, so's nay tae look ower scruffy, an pet on ma rigger beet's, on page 65

1 matches

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