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The word 'claw'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clawOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72818
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 claw in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ere, Meg stoppit a meenit tae claw a daud o birsslit neep frae t
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the scrattin as she tried tae claw her wye throwe the shutters.
aar her neebour hid tried tae claw her wye in. She thocht she’
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
eds tae gie oor hoosie a guid claw! https://t.co/PI0uKNyc6c(2016)
ckit lot, rubbing a perfectly claw aipple on yer clarty claes!(2018)
cht you the latest #bidet tae claw yer erse! #doric https://t.co(2018)
r pavements - cum on owners, claw up aifter yer pets. https://t(2018)
urland. Foo are they gyan tae claw the slides wi athoot slipping(2020)

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
n wi, Ah dinnae go aboot in a claw hammer jaicket an dickiebow. on page 40

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
yer mibbes right, a cloot tae claw at ma erse!(2016)

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Nae claw ti maim, nae gait ti flake on page 91

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
a bleck iron bar wi a heuk an claw on the ae eyn an a sklentit f on page 97

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ds wis willin the big man tae claw it back m8 - but fair doos t (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
its rapacious beak an taloned claw. on page 14
hair rivals aa micht fidge an claw, They smugly gloatit, on page 44

2 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
e slab merkit wi the bluid an claw marks o hunners o years. A ra on page 9

1 matches

Glasgow

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
Big claw marks - but where dae they g on page 14

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
- an the rest ay us fight an claw oor waiy tae the table tae se
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Nae claw ti maim, nae gait ti flake on page 91

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
that deft, and quick o claw on page 45

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Nae claw tae maim, nae gait tae flake on page 53

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
A weel-claw’d kaim tae gar our Marischa
Gin I maun claw their caup, their jutes maun
2 matches

solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
fun it acceptable, an lat him claw her heid.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
bi no makkin mention, nor yit claw the backs o ithers - how no on page 5

1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
d the jist pull them oot wi a claw hammer?#ouch(2013)

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
m o JFK as Oswald’s billets claw
1 matches

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