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The word 'dicks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dicksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 dicks in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
chiels wi e deevils. An govie dicks, e hale toon cam oot tae meet on page 17

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
Govie dicks! Fit a fleg tae gie ma! I...
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@RD1783 @bj2029 Maistly Dicks(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
....... jist so I can wind Mr Dicks up aboot it obviously ????(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s posh cunts go tae git their dicks up. Ah mean, it hud maire bli on page 17

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ance tae rough up some o they dicks in the rid coats. I still kep
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
oh wankers - ffs there jist dicks lol (2021) twitter link

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
ck.And fur makin Us look like dicks ye kin pick up Yer well earne(2019)