A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'plukey'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plukeyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.242
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 plukey in Corpus

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
tin the buzzer an there’s a plukey faced burd staunin in the doo
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
A plukey girl wi lang, black greasy ha on page 6
oan the sweeties because his plukey face doesnae just put me in m on page 19
ir aboot life than a bunchy o plukey wee neds. on page 37

3 matches

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