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The word 'backie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
backieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62111
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 47.4 4 2
DOR - General Northern 31 7 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of backie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
wee windae luikit oot ower a backie fu o coal sheds an fooshtit t
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
lapsed, the gear shed oot the backie got brunt tae the grun wi aa
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
€™d heard a commotion oot the backie and Catty myowin in agony. Sh
they’d been sittin oot the backie enjoyin a quiet drink fin som
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
birdies wad gaither roon her backie in the foreneen wytin fur a b
ddle wisna tae be seen at yer backie. She’d hytered ower a rug i
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
FaÂ’s fur a backie? http://t.co/CrDoN7yVyc(2014)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ful. Looks like a photie o ma backie ??(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
n yer clyse, an ging roon the backie, wi a snell wind blaain an th on page 75

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
. They’d come roon intae ma backie for a yap so I could see ye..
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
e the helicopter doon into my backie. An Officer starts descending
as broken apart – across ma backie, there’s clythes, burst pil
2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
On i'trampoline in their backie! on page 133
Sittin in a cooncil backie, sikin' oot some sun. on page 144
His quine wiz in i'backie on page 172

4 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
r if ye wis lucky, out in the backie agin the wa if ye wisnae. Bit
1 matches

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
@CMonaghanSNP Gies a backie ??(2019)

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
v now ‘is wikend or we still backie scoofin’? #(2020)

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
re. Ah widnae let ye gie me a backie, that's aw ah'll say on the m on page 1

2 matches

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