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The word 'hoos'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoosOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92313
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 63.9 11 2
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 hoos in Corpus

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Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - Five Signs, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ry lass lukk tae hiv her oawn hoos, on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Dis Hoos a'Myn on page 14

4 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Pieriewys, (Shetland For Wirds 2005) Shetland, poetry
an da pieriemootie hoos
1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Frisk Waatir Troot, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
fae da quhyt-waasht hoos
1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
r the emotions o aabody in dy hoos. I joost want to sit in a dar (2019) twitter link
do dats no screechin aboot da hoos lik banshees!! (2020) twitter link
@drl dirs a hoos in hillside dat has dir ootsi (2019) twitter link
one mental. Runnin through da hoos at top friggin speed #MyCarpe (2019) twitter link

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
the times I stood ootside her hoos, on page 43

2 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Is the wee hoos in Skye.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ck - its mega - then yule c hoos right lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
t yoostae liv an no a haf way hoos fur dilinkwints. on page 41

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
guin, arna ye?’ An then, ‘Hoos aboot ye run them baith past
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
mi - jist oot fae the smelly hoos o’ some auld wifey (nae wea
1 matches

Eunson, Catherine Freude, (The Scores 2020) Central, poetry
Far mair nor the meal, the hoos and the gairden was spylt;
1 matches

General Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Gruggie, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
uch shootin up, clairtit shit-hoos prey on page 74

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
aces maun be putit on oot the hoos Aye min an wash yer hauns Can(2020)

@LowEndJardo tweeted
there was always a ps1 in the hoos n a got right intae Simpsons (2021) twitter link

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