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The word 'pinkie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pinkieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61811
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pinkie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
o the flint? Peedie buckies, pinkie nails, on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Pinkie hole ajar, on page 26

1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
pinkie glisk on page 3

1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
, got tae be runnin' soon yer pinkie. Hiv tae confess I've nivver (2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
an fisted ma pinkie on page 90

1 matches

Gilmour, Rosie The Thistle, (Scots Hoose 2013) Central, weans
It jagged ma wee pinkie
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
aye a wee touch o quality fae pinkie that yin m8 (2021) twitter link
acey @Michael_Moffat sose wee pinkie lol (2020) twitter link
@jackmoffat66 c that wee pinkie laddie - hees dun it awe - (2021) twitter link
nAYFC shockin m8 - the 3g at pinkie was done awhile a go too - p (2020) twitter link
oy the youth games william - pinkie/cowden park/the campus etc et (2021) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Touch his neb wi his pinkie, A jalouse. https://t.co/8PtV(2020)

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the laddie's hurt his pinkie finger on page 4
oot ma pinkie fingir on page 29

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ecutive daesna hae tae lift a pinkie for Scots. Whitever micht be on page 121

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
the pinkie in th air posers on page 95

1 matches

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