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The word 'brock'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brockOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus247712
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 96.2 72 7
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) 88.3 1 1
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 brock 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
in the pitmirk cweel, like a brock or a rubbit or a futterat. Wh
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
greetin dour strule laden wi brock lang-tint bein A claucht the on page 3

1 matches

Milligan, John Lallans 68 - Fu Brawlie Kythe Their Hair, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, poetry
piggery yon lass wis frae hid brock an glaur an keech on page 40

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Brock??(thon's nae a badger!) https(2020)

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
the brock tae me ~ cauld kail an parrit on page 36

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
Brock on page 45
'Brock!' skirled Mr Tod. on page 46
n his secret. 'Ma auld freend Brock,' he said, "this guddle's aw on page 447
'Stap! skirled Brock. 'Dinna tease us! I canna tho on page 48
Tod pit his face richt in at Brock's and in a pawkie whusper sai on page 49
Also on pages 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 79
63 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
whaur thay leeved on the auld brock tatties an foozie neeps. Nait on page 80

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
The brock at hes me - hark an think a on page 45

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
This is frae the innin o The Brock: on page 120

3 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
‘The thummart, wil’-cat, brock and tod” (pole cat, wildcat
in his ‘thummart, wil'-cat, brock and tod.’
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ther character is cried Tommy Brock. An example o folk ower the w (2021) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Whun Brock riz oot: dark nichts o darkes on page 26

1 matches

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