A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bodach Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2.1 9 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences124 6 0 0 2 0
Number of authors7 4 1 2

Occurrences of bodach in Corpus

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Central

Foyle, Ghillie Lallans 58 - The Hildebrand Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Ill bodach aye wi traeson in his hert. on page 87

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Gowden Gate Til Samarkan, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, poetry
A Bodach on page 33

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch, (no publisher recorded 2022) Central, poetry
An auld bodach cam stotterin oot o his hame,
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
Wi a wee bodach drivin, sae cantie an quick,
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
se. I tell ye this,' the auld bodach continued, 'Nae man'll sikk h on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
he wis seevinty-sax, an auld bodach wi a fite mowser that needit
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
awa ower the fire fin an auld bodach wi his rib-beens powkin oot l
he fit o the coggie. The auld bodach thankit her an shauchled awa.
a should she see bit the auld bodach wytin fur her. An he telt her
rified o demons, bit the auld bodach seemed a wyce-like craitur, a
4 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
an auld soor bodach wi a lyart baird, on page 144

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Ah cam back a cruppen bodach.
1 matches

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