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The word 'wechty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wechtyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22010
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 16 12 5
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) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wechty 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.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ick blaik hair pued back in a wechty pleat near as thick as a shel
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
r tae buy a currant bap. Wi a wechty clunk, a 5Op fell doon aside
ddy, as syne as it wis growin wechty, he stoppit.
2 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
Frae morning ti nicht I trail wechty dracchts, trail secks o shull on page 26

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'It's nae use. She's a wechty wumman. She's got muscles lik on page 209

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
nd in order tae jouk gettin a wechty dunch in the kist, I dooked a on page 94
a Surprise.' He hoasted in a wechty kind o wey, and stertit ower: on page 154

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
lliam Motherwell is the maist wechty gaitherer o Scots sangs o the on page 69

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
n an pechin. Laundin dunts wi wechty shuin. Noo it wis Ella's tirn on page 67

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
t the lock an buited apen the wechty door whit stottert aff the ja on page 17

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
o sindry sizes claucht in its wechty gravity. Forder oot fae Jubit
is acause oor Sun is fouthy o wechty elements sic as gowd an urani
that maks the atmosphere that wechty that it wad be like gauin ala
aboot wis tore apairt wi the wechty gravity o michty Jubiter an d
rawn in aboot throu Jubiter's wechty gravity.
5 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
, the’r the ither, nae less wechty, darg o wirkin oot juist whit
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
In wechty books, a despert power: on page 40

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
Grace heerd a wile crack an a wechty dunt. Frichtit, she gien a sp
fe’s droondit boadie liftit wechty tae tha tap an, wi a heft, Jo
2 matches

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