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Use in varieties of Scots

lipstick Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.7 2 19.2 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences194 13 0 1 1 0
Number of authors10 4 4 1 1

Occurrences of lipstick 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

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
her lugs, she ay wore purple lipstick. She wis a witch fur shair. Y on page 12

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
lipstick is then applied on page 61

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
k a wee mouser or a dab o her lipstick for rosy cheeks. We thocht we
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
igee, mooth plastered wae red lipstick. Asked for some sugar, winked (2021) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Tae pit on sae much lipstick as ye've on the nicht An nae on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ed up te the nines - aa reed lipstick an nails an weerin a wee fur on page 27
ow a strip o grey hair; she'd lipstick on her teeth; she wis yoamin on page 59
throwe her stockins. She'd on lipstick an aa - shiny an fine-lookin on page 64
Would you like to try on some lipstick?" on page 65
"Thunks!" Ah teen the lipstick an slippit it doon ma sock an on page 66
Also on pages 67
10 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
A ghoulish blonde wi reed lipstick, on page 17

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
s war the same colour’s her lipstick, affa
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
old me da fairies blotted dir lipstick on da daisies and dat's how d(2020) search twitter

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
lipstick tae mak ye ridder, on page 141

1 matches

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