Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dabbed	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	0.5	1.5	29.8	0	0	17.7
Number of occurrences	9	1	1	3	0	0	4
Number of authors	6	1	1	2			2

Occurrences of dabbed 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.

Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
laughter behin hankies as yes dabbed at yer mascara as it stertit on page 80

1 matches

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
far fae the ghillie’s tree, dabbed by the fingers o Erchie an Ab
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Poor Victor dabbed his sweatan broo and climb'd on page 8
He dabbed her eyes wi stardust and chan on page 36

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ed oot a lace handkerchief an dabbed her eyes beneath her glesses.
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
muived ocht frae a handbag an dabbed hir face. She turnt away, glo on page 5

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
ake heid o hair that kame had dabbed on page 25

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
Ah dabbed Jenny wi ma shouder.
Jenny dabbed me wi her shouder.
2 matches