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The word 'poacher'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poacherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4113
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 85 8 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 poacher in Corpus

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General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
Poacher
it wes the gamie, or anither poacher fa had the deer. But fit he k
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Davie Gray the Poacher on page 82
uidnac ivver catch the Dundee poacher. Bein sae tall, strany an kin on page 84
way tae be rid o this damned poacher for once an for aw,' he annou on page 85
at the last meenit the Dundee poacher wuid think better o his commi on page 87
but Davie Gray, the fearless poacher, was nae mair and aw that rem on page 90

8 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ly "Aye, he's got a gut lik a poacher's pooch."(2020)