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The word 'slabber'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slabberOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of slabber in Corpus

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
paused tae dicht a spreckle o slabber affy her lips. on page 115

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Slaver and slabber, champ and chaw on page 90

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
makkin it pit its heid in tae slabber an souk the milk fae ma finge
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An ganshes aye slabber, an coofs aye gurn, on page 25
Some yins slabber o "populism" on page 41

2 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
The folk that slabber dinnae know ocht o oor lang t
1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
@Anto39628368 What ye say ya slabber?(2020)
@5intheface What ya say ye slabber?(2019)

@the_gellick tweeted
ross the poleetical continuum slabber aboot Ulster Scots. (2016) twitter link