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The word 'dafties'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daftiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6189
ORK - Orkney
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 20.5 8 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 dafties 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.

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
uv tae show fur it? A TV they dafties fae CSI could trace back tae on page 13
's ae the bettin world. These dafties sit fixated oan the screen ae on page 27
ady's jumpin up and doon like dafties. The boay is stormin towards on page 110
uvin tae listen tae these two dafties, Craig sparks up the joint an on page 131
ls at ma reaction "Listen, ya dafties. That bunch ae Stephen Hawkin on page 132
Also on pages 158
6 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
evdy else cherges aboot like dafties, it means ah huv tae anaw. It
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
evdy else cherges aboot like dafties, it means ah huv tae dae that
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ntre Plus signin on wi aw the dafties. The Careers Officer even sai on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Fuckin mone then, ya dafties, YOUNG TEAM!' Taz shouts, wal on page 18
"YOUNG TOI, YA FUCKIN DAFTIES'" on page 60

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
nt tae illustrate tae the two dafties that it shouldnae an disnae n
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
t rinnin aboot aa roads, like dafties, tummlin an duntin agin ilka on page 44

3 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O fitbaa dafties yaisin nippit words on page 14

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
or drunkarts. Naether ir thay dafties, rinnin roon wi swurds an hac on page 91

1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
_gary Thanks Gary... a loadda dafties oot there for sure (2022) twitter link

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