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The word 'thunnerplump'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thunnerplumpOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
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
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) 142.8 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thunnerplump in Corpus

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General Central

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
Ye ken hoo sometimes, afore a thunnerplump, ye hear a douce, dirlin rumm
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Doon tha thunnerplump teemed on page 16
In tha thunnerplump plooterin on tha flowe, on page 24
A thunnerplump o bombs on Palestine, on page 39

3 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
me for ganshes an slabbers. A thunnerplump o ridicule dinged doon an no
1 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
ch95 @StuartPoet Do you have 'thunnerplump' for a huge sudden downpour o(2020)