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The word 'furby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
furbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.1294
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 46 18 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 43.9 7 1
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) 62.8 2 1
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 furby in Corpus

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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - The chapel by the burn, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ho dis a buddy in battle ken, furby the plaid? on page 6

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
rrie kent an loued the buiks, furby masell an monie ithers.
day’s stannerts an furby hae a owerflowe intil a watti
Furby, the kintra’s aw upbrak int
ower monie bairns ti nourice, furby bein a browster
blak man an hed twene bairns furby. Shae rakkont at
18 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
furm ledes ti ither bettirs, furby. on page 11
frae the naitral fowk. It is furby awned ti be the maist gentie on page 12

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
ane erest, than kerved it, an furby thai wuid fit the desing ti t on page 43
the stane wul be mair strang. Furby it wul luik lik a broch abune on page 44
gin henges an licht chaumers, furby makkin racords on bulders wi on page 47

4 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
rr, an a stound in hiz riggin furby weiriet airms.
1 matches

General Central

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
e chap an there nocht fur him furby the caff at’s left frae the
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ch a rule at processions; "an furby, what wud bae the use o a pro on page 79
wus in the act o craalin awa: furby aal this, thur wus usually a on page 83

2 matches

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