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The word 'plump'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
plumpOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51610
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of plump 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

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
under her, an da nixt meenit, plump! shö wis up tae her shin in on page 21

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
if you brakk da surface youll plump aa da wye doon tae Australia! on page 92

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah'd ivver seen - a bunnle o plump, pink perfection. Ah held her on page 45
raa's feet - she'd a lovely, Plump behind an the biggest, maist on page 60

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ngue, skelp ontae Isie's saft plump haun.
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Spiled be a thunner plump or twa.
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Sultry an het wi a thunner plump or twa,
Ere's mair than ae thunner plump.
Heavy thunner plump at denner time,
Ere's mair than ae thunner plump.
4 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
e lang syne tae a hivvie clud plump an the sky
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
addin in the direction ae the plump, bald dafty, in the Bonnyrigg on page 106
dain here?" it's Sally, eh? a plump lassie wae a surprisin fizzy on page 173

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
the difference atween a richt plump o rain and a licht smirr. If on page 7

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
plump an roon as chicken breest on page 12

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
An a sweet juicy plump wee roon woman
1 matches

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