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The word 'dubby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dubbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 5
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern
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)
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 dubby in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
agreet Morrice, kickin aff is dubby sheen an dichtin a dreep o ra on page 46

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e made - the hair aawye; the dubby paaws an at affa doggy stink on page 18

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
a rubbit fortress. Frae their dubby lair they reenged ower the ne
war clartit green an black wi dubby girse.
iece an flingin steens in the dubby watter. She ran throw her Da'
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
"Mind fin thon wis a glaury dubby hole? Mind fin anely the wino
1 matches

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
Dubby breeks, bleedin nose an untie
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he hoose, first takin aff her dubby beets and pittin on her slipp
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Aa aroon her, fowk trampit wi dubby feet, an Teenie wis like tae
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ks? Drainage? Tae mak it less dubby in aboot the yetts? Tae dump (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
me fur the breet. Sottars wis dubby, hairy, and affa clivver. Nei
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ak for good fuel. The grun is dubby and sucks at oor boots as we
1 matches

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