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The word 'thrawin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thrawinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91912
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 50.2 8 4
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 4
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 thrawin 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.

General Northern

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - A Wird i Yer Lug, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
fleein roon a suppermairket, thrawin free messages intil a trolley
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
oond in the vacuum o silence, thrawin oot this auld washin line o a
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
€™ this maistly consists o’ thrawin’ in some guid Scots words l
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
er out the ruim. A hae sein'm thrawin hiz hauns eftir siccan a snot on page 6

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 70 - The Primped Skull, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Efter the nicht mairch, the thrawin bayonet hunger,
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
, my feres,’ skirls Snawba, thrawin doun the pentbrush, ‘tae th
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Beatrice stiffent. Insteid o thrawin him aff, as he obviously expe
yntless disteenctions an mind-thrawin weys o pittin things. Ancesto
shuk her heid, Schadenfreude thrawin her mou. He leukit at the twi
it ower the bottles o liquor, thrawin in some fags, an they gaed on
thaim jooglin open knifes an thrawin thaim tae ither, on the yin o
5 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
id Brock, takkin the jaur and thrawin his heid weel back. The cider on page 65

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Mair stark than mountain-thrawin faith. on page 12
Thrawin an thrivin, on page 56

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
e the'r nae plates flittin an thrawin on Mairs, Olympus Mons jist s
icht'a haen muckle tae dae wi thrawin aff-warld rocks the gait o th
he new moon caused a stramash thrawin ither moons ootwards an setti
3 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
emkin Pairty, scurryin aboot, thrawin up bonnie hoose-fronts an dre
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
thrawin oot the daurk an sinkin back on page 9

1 matches

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