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Use in varieties of Scots

spooky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 3 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences73 2 2 0 0 0
Number of authors7 3 2 2

Occurrences of spooky in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Get that spooky bastart!’ ah shout.
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
hynge their name tae a sortae spooky pun fir Halloween.(2019) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
Listen tae audio recordins o spooky stories, watch a video aboot (2018) twitter link

Doric

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
The spooky mood is risin.
1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
Wallace. Just dinae want yir spooky lips hoodoo on oor team tae c(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
thing thoo can deu tae stop a spooky stot. on page 87

1 matches

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
creepy big hoose, mysterious spooky and strange, on page 29

1 matches

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