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The word 'baldie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
baldieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.2239
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 21.4 16 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 baldie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ang stran o hair at happit is baldie spot, "an he's aye bin a bitt on page 33

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e an kaimed his hair ower his baldie patch; he'd swappit his gweed on page 47

1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@chaz50_duncan Thon baldie hoor missed a trick, #HotelCa(2019)
@coldavi fit like baldie? Funcy some fruit in Ye?(2015)
top poakit n' gie thon giepit baldie hoor @realDonaldTrump a reid (2015)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
Andrae, a wuzzent wee man wi baldie heid, gray stibblie baird an
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ies and lassies gaun aboot wi baldie heids!' on page 103

1 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
And tatties are baldie on page 12

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
y shape and size. There wis a baldie chiel wi a richt lang neb, dr on page 47
The muckle, baldie chiel keeked at the bairns. " on page 48
e bit notice, apairt frae the baldie chiel, wha stapped deid and s on page 49
Violet mindit whit the baldie chiel had said aboot makkin a on page 50
oot at the last meenit." The baldie chiel wi the lang neb hurried on page 139
Also on pages 141, 144, 149, 158
11 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
an endit wi a baldie patch on page 23

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
thon wee baldie mannie at Carnegie Hall on page 70

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
nowadays.. I'm happy being a baldie... :) Cheaper tae buy a hat.. (2023) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
wee baldie boy frae Stirling on page 29

1 matches

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