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The word 'sneakin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sneakinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central
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 56.9 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sneakin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
o toon at often back en. Mind sneakin eence inti see a dirty picter(2019)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
They'd gae sneakin roond mens doors late at nigh on page 80

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
pired by me anyway. Ave git a sneakin suspicion that he knows that on page 54

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Of course it went fur ye, yer sneakin aboot like a fuckin copper. A
1 matches

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
at ah think aboot it, ye were sneakin' roon ahint ma back for month
1 matches

General Ulster

Robinson, Philip Tae a Virus, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, poetry
Nae sneakin oot fur strolls
1 matches

Dee Har Tha Broon Troot, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
Sneakin up fae ahint,
1 matches

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