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The word 'meaneen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meaneenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9193
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 2
SHD - Shetland 81.4 14 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 meaneen in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Margit kens her meaneen. Affens fock say "dinno tell" on page 97
nce wi a new body at'll mak a meaneen. He smiles at Olaf wi his bai on page 132
misanter: thir no a puckle o meaneen atween them whan skeel is mee on page 157

4 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
heft tae the meaneen.
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
nli ee soond ithin a wird, da meaneen'll be cheinged. Fir example, on page 22
ntic content (i.e. sum kind o meaneen in an o itsel) is a røt. A r on page 38
ur tae gie dem sum kind o new meaneen. Dey can idder be eekit on ta on page 39
aed sum vaige tae win tae its meaneen. Hit's maed wi da Scots smuir on page 42
s da sam an haes da sam basic meaneen, bit it's modified fir gramma on page 43
Also on pages 102, 104
14 matches

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