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Use in varieties of Scots

hirple Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 1.5 3 9.9 5.8 10.3 22.1
Number of occurrences133 2 1 1 1 5
Number of authors11 3 2 1 1 1 3

Occurrences of hirple in Corpus

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Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
berkin like a dug ~ an unco hirple an aa, on page 36

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Needs a crutch tae hirple up and doon. on page 72

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ceitizens. Dae y'se want tae hirple alang or div y'se want tae ha on page 121

1 matches

Doric

Abel, Charlie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
trip wis "Don Carlos", bit ma hirple's awa noo. on page 25

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
dae ma spine ony gweed, an Ah hirple aboot on twa sticks the day. on page 12

1 matches

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
an tholed his hirple on page 143

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
lamalaeg body at can haardly hirple atween da bed an fire.
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Aye it's a sair fecht. Dinnae hirple owremuch or it'll gowp even m(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
We dander hame, or hirple aff on page 35
May hirple aff its ain wee way. on page 40

2 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
awee an then sayed, “A can hirple tha best oan ma cruik but A b
rred wuid whun tha oul wumman hirple’t up tae him.
2 matches

@Angelinekking tweeted
Hirple - my word of the day. The li(2020) search twitter

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