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Use in varieties of Scots

dinger Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.2 7.7 4.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2015 3 1 0 0 1
Number of authors15 11 2 1 1

Occurrences of dinger 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

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ootby skreichin, an gaun her dinger. She had aaready heard her er on page 44

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
the expletives as he went his dinger. on page 53

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
or, wi his cybertail gaun its dinger. Kat kent this wis a sign tha on page 4
ooters had stapped gaun their dinger. on page 16
an his tail stertit gaun its dinger again. on page 25

3 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
soon the crowd are gaun their dinger on page 4

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
wis a wullyard baist gaun its dinger, daudin the trap sides wi it' on page 80

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
Diz he go iz dinger? Is he missin a screw?" on page 4

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
gaun its dinger ower the muir, shae kent shae
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
Maist fowk wad gan their dinger if they thocht ah wis likenin
1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
is cybertail stertit gaun its dinger.
ae space an his tail gaun its dinger. As afore, Kat cudna see ony
2 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
s sure ma ma wid jist dae her dinger oan this wan. So ah made up s
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
“Nou, Dinger! Nou, Flinger! Nou, Jinker an
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ppressor - as dingit doon or dinger doon. Jist as aw fowks can be
1 matches

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
Schrödinger’s Leid?
ux; Scots is nae unlike Schrödinger’s Cat – a language at bai
2 matches

Facebook link ( 2013) Doric - Buckie
es contraption jist gings its dinger an evry time a type a wordie

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
an oot a trail o Lights tae a dinger, a haal. on page 23

1 matches

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
8 Ack lass, you aww hay a hum-dinger o a day!!! https://t.co/Suzjc (2021) twitter link