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The word 'peelie-wallie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peelie-wallieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71515
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 6
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 peelie-wallie in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
back in the peelie-wallie day. on page 12

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Aa the fowk aroon him tho war peelie-wallie an dwinin, cheengin inno the
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
t o hou the years had made me peelie-wallie, bags under my e'en ye cuid c on page 76

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Scots uised haes gotten a bit peelie-wallie in raicent years, the innin t
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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
nd scuddy as a jyle-cell. The peelie-wallie daylicht that entered came fa on page 183

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e day, an the main problem is peelie-wallie politicians an lickspittle jo on page 36

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Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
oan the paper as leukin lik a peelie-wallie tree strainin awards the sunl on page 8

1 matches

Glasgow

Eunson, Catherine This Winter, (The Scores 2020) Central, poetry
peelie-wallie gress whiskers rustlin a roon
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Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - Napoleon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
peelie-wallie platoons o young peach trees;
1 matches

General Central

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
nd fu o let-be, the ae path's peelie-wallie strip appeared, a line o line on page 55

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Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
iled intae the barn, wheetlin peelie-wallie and govin frae side tae side on page 6

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
d be tae leave this culture a peelie-wallie shedda o itsel an loss that b on page 9

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
I'm sure, that peelie-wallie scrunt o a man, on page 29

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Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
grutten bairns, an leukin sae peelie-wallie, nae mair ‘an a rauchle o b
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
raw, flit, coorie, weel-kent, peelie-wallie, shooglie, or high heid yin.
1 matches

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