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The word 'smush'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
smushOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1135
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 smush in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
it kissed da sheenin saand; a smush
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
trampled the simmer girse tae smush. East o the schule an the pui
e crackly forest fleer wi its smush o beechnuts an leaves an ooto
ts crummlin inno the aisse an smush at their reid, reid foon.
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
on its glaury bed aa the orra smush an smacherie o humankin, frae
er's near-haun surgery aa tae smush. Eftir thon, they'd thocht ta
Duguid's kidneys war awa tae smush, an Jed Anderson wis the mais
st efter his kidneys gaed tae smush. Some fowk hid wyted years.
an dwinin, cheengin inno the smush o grave-yird mools.
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
in the snaw, a sappy mush o smush, jist fit it aywis hid bin, a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Frae aa thon smush - weill, braw. on page 9

1 matches

West Central

Kirk Jn, Albert Guid Fences Mak Guid Neibours, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Whae ettles tae smush ma dwallin wi swecht;
1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
An smush their aiken hools. on page 50

1 matches

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