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The word 'gunk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gunkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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) 327 2 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of gunk in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the guise fank, an gat a sair gunk. It wesna the samen
wycer, Ruth gat anither sair gunk. Hir mither cam trauchlin ala
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
s she ran. "He'll get a richt gunk when he fins oot whae I am! B on page 33

1 matches

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Gentlemen of the road, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
maw’s boyfreend gied me the gunk,
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
aic", "dander", "foundered", "gunk", "haul", "hoak", "juke", "ne(2020)
Often heard as “a quare gunk” meaning a great disappointm(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ster o mine is in fur a quare gunk. She'll need mair than Milk o on page 27

1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ke the ither day. Got a quare gunk at folks no wearin masks ????(2020)
@Angelinekking I'd a quare gunk whin a spotted it an cannae w (2021) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
sut doon. Tha Pharisee got a gunk whan he saa that Jesus dïdna on page 90

1 matches

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