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The word 'figir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
figirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4112
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
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 figir in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
peleen ouïr kaindleenes as A figir oot whit A’m traiän tae de
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Noo, ere's a nice figir." An undettered Eric noddit i on page 15
She run er hans ower er ample figir. on page 28
t atween imsel an the ghostly figir oan the grun. on page 78

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
up an maintainin ma oorglaiss figir - weel, bein on page 58
Ah canna see nae odds in yer figir," said Alec, leenin oota the on page 68
"Bit it least she'd a nice figir." on page 69
figir..." He laid his heid on ae si on page 70
soapy watter. He saa her tiny figir encased in a flooery cross-ow on page 90

5 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
uperficial things like a slim figir ~ ere's much mair te some' dy on page 39

2 matches

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