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The word 'pussy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pussyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91912
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 pussy 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.

Orkney

Hall, Anja Poosack, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Pussy's needan oot again
Pussy girns and greets and pleeps -
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
wirds Jean hid written - Let pussy oot! on page 15

5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
them. He’d sat, quate’s a pussy, haudin his braith fin she cr
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
I di miss pussy(2020)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I've got a feline, a rare wee pussy cat on page 198

1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
8967 @AberdeenFC Grow up min. Pussy move tae go greetin tae a loo(2020)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
The Wee Bird and the Pussy Cat
Singin, "There's nae pussy cat can catch me."
2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ge me, gin thoo got a smell o pussy, an daena try tae deny it, th
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t. "Where wur yooz? Ya fuckin pussy bastards! Yir mate wis gittin on page 29
'HAW YOOZ, YA FUCKIN PUSSY BASTARDS! on page 43

2 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
nae pussy this on page 44

1 matches

Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
trippit cats. They were ca'ad pussy cats. Puss, puss, puss. D was on page 120

1 matches

@changed_days tweeted
d be a smart dug, or a fuckin pussy? Mad how everything can be tu (2021) twitter link

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