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Use in varieties of Scots

trifle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 0 13.6 29.8 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences130 9 3 1 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of trifle in Corpus

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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a great muckle dish o sherry trifle fir the poodin." on page 18

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
y missus maks the best sherry trifle ye've ivver tastit." on page 29

2 matches

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
roon o her famous skirlie an trifle (te be served separately) -
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
trifle.
Skirly wun ooto the trifle dish an plappit ower the tabl
in a trifle, an fyled his paws reversin o
’s in a sottar an there’s trifle stukken up ma snoot”
ld wummin aboot fa spyled her trifle.”
5 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
sits and glaips their fill o trifle, peas and hen. on page 70

2 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Some wad hae trifle, toppd wae cream on page 116

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
egated description): wanwirt 'trifle' (wan- + wirt) on page 43

1 matches

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