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The word 'bully'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bullyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22416
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 5
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 bully in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
an-time resident o the former bully on page 7

3 matches

Shetland

Sinclair, Lise Juist laek Maunna, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
erdly laek ta pit a fit on da bully-steens
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
ourse it is! Dinna let anyone bully you over voting. Your choice (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
it his granda Sangster wis: a bully, a drooth, an orral – bit a
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Redress wiz a bully o the worst kine, but Douglas
fit aa the recruits caad the bully bastard.
2 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Tae say that Jake wis a bully wis pittin it mildly. He rule
1 matches

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
by yer cousin nae the school bully ????(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Mark, efteraw, wis the local bully. And the sortae cunt who prey on page 198

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n see if anybody wis tae ever bully her or say anythin nasty then on page 76

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ma da. Widdy a think ae wit. Bully Boy Micoy ee' s in thi paipur on page 41

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
egular occasions. No a fuckin bully but - hate they cunts. on page 6
'A hate fuckin bully bastards: on page 29

2 matches

General Central

Waddell, John Lallans 59 - Eve and the Aipple, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
the Laird. Ach, He wis a rale bully. It wis, "Ye maun dae this!" on page 89

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 59 - Eve and the Aipple, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
the Laird. Ach, He wis a rale bully. It wis, "Ye maun dae this!" on page 89

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
in it a twofur fur the famous Bully Wee??.The (2019)
am in Scotlanddddd,The Famous Bully Weeeeeeee”???????????? https(2019)

@billykayscot tweeted
“Gurzies” wis whit the big bully boays yelled when they kicked(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
some feel the need tae shun, bully an ostracise thum?(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
as4Moray Dougie the schoolboy bully couldnae tie Ms Sturgeon's la(2020)
Ah wee Dougie, the schoolboy bully wha only managed tae bully la(2020)

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