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Use in varieties of Scots

gadgies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 13.4 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2826 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 9 2

Occurrences of gadgies in Corpus

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Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
e wee green extra terrestrial gadgies who's landed oan a new planet on page

5 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
jist yin big fuckin joke oan gadgies like us. on page 15
the life support fur gadgies like me. Dinnae git it twiste on page 29

2 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
d's disappeared and there are gadgies wi guns stottin aboot everywh on page 46

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
a clamjamfrie o oorie-lookin gadgies o every shape and size. There on page 47

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
a puckle o gadgies on page 71

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ke dobber, barfin, alchies an gadgies winna be eikit in cause o tha
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
a thing mair siccar than the gadgies wha liked it afore it wis coo
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
h Perliement Election. Boffin gadgies wi white lab coats hae delvit
is: research (by ither brainy gadgies fae Amerikay) has shawn that
2 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert A Fickle Nae Mair, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Gadgies fae the BBC.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
orld wae awe the doom n gloom gadgies oan here lol - b oan brother (2021) twitter link
er that later m8 cos half the gadgies noo a days think the players (2020) twitter link
rtsFC affy touchy thae keltie gadgies - wis it summit a said - m8 (2021) twitter link
snawin by then - thae perth gadgies r muckin everythin up baa baa (2020) twitter link
erchie btw - gotta luv thae gadgies wae the long dress n scarf n (2021) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.

Doric

McArthur, Kaydi Rich n Peer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
the peer folk. A o the minted gadgies hated um. They didna like the
1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@FaeFoggie @air_ingy Yon gadgies fae Buchan spik funny ony eye(2019) search twitter

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