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The word 'muggins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mugginsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
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
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 muggins in Corpus

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General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
ed roon the room an landed on muggins now 'US'. Her angry eyes were
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
door an' came in tae luck fur Muggins, rat's whit 'e cries ri wee d
whit 'e cries ri wee dug, an' Muggins jist ignores 'um 'cos whin ru
t's gaun' aboot.” 'E chased Muggins roon' an' snapped 'e's lead o
Muggins came tae ri door bang oan fou
4 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
; illegal an crookit gamblin; muggins; theft; an assault, tho as an on page 104

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
a finger tae help me - it's muggins here that's tae mak up the le on page 37

2 matches

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