A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bowster'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bowsterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 bowster in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ine on the ferm tossed on her bowster an dreamt o the ghaistly laid
ovin Betsy her dallie ben the bowster fur fear that Isie wad flatte
the snaa hid laid a saft fite bowster, that wis criss-crossed bi th
ss tae lift his heid affo the bowster, an he whizzled an whizzled t
on, her heid fell back on the bowster an her een shut.
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
r fair hair like wheat on the bowster, her lang lashes happin her d
de the patient booed ower the bowster…nae sae much as a hello oot
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
oot eneuch fedders ti stap a bowster, yon bissum.' on page 40

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
he said til hersel, stellin a bowster roun the craig o Deedledee, " on page 60

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an his heid slid back on the bowster. Slowly he turned his face ro on page 76

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
I mak a bowster o the caller bink on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Cameron, Peter Lallans 58 - The Cornfields o Lowdie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
a doitit auld gomeril wi his bowster, wad they? Naebody's richt in on page 47

1 matches

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