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The word 'hallion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hallionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5165
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 168.7 12 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hallion in Corpus

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West Central

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
a kidder! At a loss, he says! Hallion like yersel, ye could be peyi
1 matches

General Central

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
r (daunder), footer (fouter), hallion, hoke (howk), oxter, scunder
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
He wus a boul big hallion, on page 3

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
I'm more of a skitter than a hallion in all fairness! :)(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
1633 was wrang as thon coorse hallion Cromwell wrecked the aul Merc (2014) twitter link
bertBurns for he was a coorse hallion wha was aye fou o drink, an t (2015) twitter link
They're heidin round tae thon hallion Obama's hoose, for tae hae a (2015) twitter link
e wunnerfu Ulster Scots wurd "hallion", an haein "wee" in your name (2014) twitter link
cots cudnae thole thon coorse hallion Cromwell ava! It was aa throu (2015) twitter link
and 7 other occurrences.