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The word 'hoyed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoyedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.5 5 2
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 hoyed in Corpus

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General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
ie Aboot time een o’ oor ain hoyed thon cat amongst the doo’s.(2019)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
'It's yersel, Danny!' Cherlie hoyed him, 'Here for a bit dook ir on page 60

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Thae wha hoyed the wathervane (Blessit, buir on page 38

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
dreich smirr hoyed down from on page 10

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Breenge, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central, poetry
dreich smirr hoyed down from
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
VBorderLife @EmmaHarperMSP Ah hoyed the heugh, noo f(2020)
@Historic_Ally The tawse wis hoyed bi 1987 though maist LAs had (2020)
but wi a wheen o Scots wirds hoyed in sae yin even has a glossar(2020)

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