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The word 'broonie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
broonieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.8575
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 266 49 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 broonie in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
For instance … the Broonie o Helliehowe tormented a fami
ither end o the isle when the Broonie popped his heid oot o a milk
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(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
? He sticks in a foot jist as Broonie’s aboot tae blooter it towa
on whit he wis seeing. It wis Broonie who screamed first and that s
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
? He sticks in a foot jist as Broonie’s aboot tae blooter it. The
oon whit he wis seein. It’s Broonie who screams first and that sn
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
. thinks he's fuckin mental,' Broonie shouts. on page 5
Shaun Brown n John McKenzie, Broonie n Wee Kenzie, they git called on page 7
'Aye so yi huv, Broonie!' on page 11
'Fuckin auld cunt, Broonie says. on page 13
start tae walk doon. Next is Broonie n Finnegan n last Addison, on on page 17
Also on pages 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60
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General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ts Dictionary) an the Grammar Broonie. This micht be termt a soople on page 56

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@LairnScots tweeted
a comic fir bairns cried 'Bad Broonie', by @ClashCityClarky: https: (2020) twitter link

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