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The word 'hunkers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hunkersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 71.4 2 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hunkers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
l an glaiss, cockin up on its hunkers ower a stammygaster o cliff a
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
wis fair hashed, doon on his hunkers
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
' A haed tae gyang doon on ma hunkers files; an as aften as nae, A on page 89

1 matches

(South) East Central

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 59 - Joukene Poukerie, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
Ye got doon on yer hunkers, tuckit yer coat ahent yer kn
1 matches

West Central

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
fash yersel”. Fae Dutch, “hunkers”; fae Scandinavian, “lugs
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
concerts on Calton Hill (that hunkers up abune Regent Road at the e on page 105

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
llwood! He courit doun on his hunkers and stelld himsel, wi ticht w on page 59

1 matches

General Central

Keaveney, Marcus Lallans 102 - Bein a Wid Tink, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
Auld Tod clockts me and hunkers doon, dumfounart. I hear his on page 71

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
quivalentʼ. Gaein doun on ma hunkers, taein the wee beast’s heid
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South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
fit in the cave, doon oan wur hunkers
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
ha sheuch. He got doon on his hunkers an felt aboot in tha dubs an on page 13

1 matches

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
o weel, an he got doon on his hunkers an caad oot tae it. Eftér a on page 18

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
We doon on hunkers sut aa roon on page 10

1 matches

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