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The word 'widdies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
widdiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 widdies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
rs yonner, tae, fin he fermed Widdies afore his laddie Jimmy tuik i
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
. Fittach's throw the Fittach widdies richt on the croon o the quar
1 matches

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
istracted makin a huttie in i widdies," says Callum.
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d teen a shortcut throwe the widdies and it wiz there he’d heard
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
comprised o pasturs, ponds an widdies aplenty. Aa three mak the per on page 16

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Bluebell widdies jist past their best show noo(2020)
@MSPAberdeen Middle o the widdies(2020)

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
widdies skelpin hiz fece. He wes pull
ie corss, wyvit frae gerss an widdies gaun in an out lik a Pecht ke
2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
The chynge-hoose widdies are green an new; on page 23

1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
skeps." Oot gaed he, sneddit widdies an brocht thaim hame. Syne sh on page 42

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
ye expect frae nipscart auld widdies," Raskolnikov said tae himsel on page 137

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
the lilt o, "Brekkin the Widdies", on page 34

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
the lilt o, “Brekkin the Widdies”,
1 matches

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