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The word 'coos'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coosOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus22.27136
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 6
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 35.6 3 2
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 3
NEC - North East Central 185.5 4 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 37.4 28 13
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of coos in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
u took the profit fae Jeemo's coos. on page 12

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
"Thir wis a lok o coos an thir calves 1 the field, a on page 20
At calfan coos, an lamban yowes, he seun cou on page 95

2 matches

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
u took the profit fae Jeemo's coos. on page 75

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
k aboot a coo 'a cow' or five coos 'five cows', bit da kye is da on page 48

2 matches

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
is a boy. He kidnapped sheep, coos an even bairns. He might stil
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Are for the coos on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
haaen awa like twa masticatin coos. on page 13
sweet breath o the pink nosed coos and the sharp stink o sharn. on page 88

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
r the bull in the park wi the coos?'
dairy...thirty reid Ayreshire coos in the herd and her favourite
she hid chairge o six milkin coos...a lang business haun milkin
here a wee whylie. I miss the coos, an I miss the byre, an I mis
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
in the kintra neither. Faith! Coos wis near an endangerit specie
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
me it wis vrocht frae Jersey coos milk inno a
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
If coos made chocolate milk ah’d dri(2017)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@davejmcgregor I've seen coos fartin fae ahin a drystane dy(2019)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
o Scott novels, Alpine scene, coos wi bells on...surprise! (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
doon tae the river. Twa three coos were gaithered near a clump o on page 15

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
toys. Oot cam the yowes, the coos, the grumphies and the dyeuki
1 matches

General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
he winter. I wid spik tae the coos an calfies; I wid cuddle the on page 59

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
the field ahind the kirk the coos came up tae the wa, an the ho on page 118

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
rthsound1 Hiv ye fun oot fa's coos are oot yet(2020)
Look oot for black coos https://t.co/XsOJ7ohkLT(2020)
ch windy light shoory day the coos wer in the opposite neuk at l(2020)
Coos https://t.co/n7xdpcPODf(2020)

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
oot the windaes. Cuddies and coos sliddered aboot on the tap o on page 23
e had a herd o skinnymalinkie coos that were nae mair than a rat on page 42
"Ah come tae tak awa yir coos," Hercules replied on his hau on page 43
stheus didna even look at the coos. He jist girned that Hercules on page 45

4 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
fell aboot. Fancy, a shop wi coos in it!
drink pee from animuls called coos. There are strange beasties a
2 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
We hairy coos an hardy baets on page 86

1 matches

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
has cuddies - the second has coos; on page 30

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
tae the bauks, the sheep and coos lay doon ahint the pigs and s on page 6

10 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
, Magnus leviet a slauchter o coos an hogs oan the shore tae pro on page 14

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
COOS THAT GIE YE CHOCOLATE MILK, i on page 119

2 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
ne that yin, we had yin aboot coos gaun through a yett at twa il on page vii
there wis a hunner and seeven coos on a yett. . ." Naw, ye see, on page viii
And the coos are gey near cooin, on page 76

3 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
e wha got M for milk frae the coos. When butter was made you got on page 120

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
ks, or geese, or brammles, or coos. on page 99

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
playit Cowboys an Indians or Coos an Ingans, as we kent it, who
1 matches

DaibhidC Moa an the tynt sun, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
brogans, an went tae milk the coos.
1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
mer Wha's gonna be mindin yer coos whan ye're stravaigin aboot, (2019)
ts Maks a change fae yows and coos.(2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
s in his online byre till the coos come hame(2020)
@aberdeentaxi1 Weel coos The Linesman For The County!(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
jist worried that ane o they coos might be his burd(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
s wis up in Coort for touchin coos in an 'inappropriate manner'.(2021)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ferm-yard-while th lowin o th coos in th distance would tak th p on page 124

1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
Hence, coos made complaint against ‘em ?(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
gubs o coos, ma wrassled heid noo fu o on page 42
e, the saut that shipped, the coos oan boats, the past we couldn on page 77

2 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Pickled coos, in unmade beds, on page 102

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
ae stuff an’ doses geen tae coos,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
Weans, coos, sheep an hens
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
e loanen cloddin stanes at my coos - wud thon be a a nott case (2015) twitter link