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The word 'minger'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mingerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.277
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 minger in Corpus

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General Northern

TheChielMeister Philomena and Alcohol, (youtube.com 2010) Doric, poetry
Mebbe ah'm a minger
1 matches

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
Oh the Ginger Minger has decreed that pubs and res (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'Ya minger!' the Trunchbull belloched. ' on page 138

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
brother who's even mair ae 4 minger - but she's too stubborn tae on page 169

1 matches

@annieones tweeted
ar ur joggie troosers. Whit a minger a um these days. (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Robb, Fraser Lallans 61 - Jimmy Bond, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, weans
Was a bit o a minger on page 9

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
I'm no a minger, by the wey." on page 43

1 matches

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