Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dabbed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

dabbed	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.7	9	6
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	2
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	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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)	131.3	4	2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of dabbed 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Poor Victor dabbed his sweatan broo and climb'd on page 8
He dabbed her eyes wi stardust and chan on page 36

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ed oot a lace handkerchief an dabbed her eyes beneath her glesses.
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
far fae the ghillie’s tree, dabbed by the fingers o Erchie an Ab
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
laughter behin hankies as yes dabbed at yer mascara as it stertit on page 80

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
muived ocht frae a handbag an dabbed hir face. She turnt away, glo on page 5

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
ake heid o hair that kame had dabbed on page 25

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
Ah dabbed Jenny wi ma shouder.
Jenny dabbed me wi her shouder.
2 matches