A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

nipped Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.8 4.5 15 9.9 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences229 10 1 0 2 0
Number of authors16 7 7 1 1

Occurrences of nipped in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
oot tae stairt again, it fair nipped her heid tae see the hedgehog on page 81

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
oan alang the road. Scratchy nipped doon the dummy, makin it look on page 1

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
his room or the cupboard then nipped back in tae get her. Da didna on page 38

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ey should tell the world ah'd nipped roond tae ma sister-in-law's on page 56

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
id, Whit. She said, Who've yi nipped. Ah said, Naebdy. She said, S on page 73

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
mammy no feed ye then?” Ah nipped soon as we’re ootside. Miss
1 matches

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
l look mare like hame. Ma dad nipped tae the wee shop across the r
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
should tell the world ah’d nipped roond tae ma sister in laws t
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e bed warmed up hunni - so a nipped thru sharpish lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
d. "Wake up, Moosie!" An they nipped id on both sides at e same ti on page 69

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ls he hid forgot, bit he jist nipped up the road for em, he wis st
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
nny said een day aifter I’d nipped oot tae tak the wheelie bin i
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Jist nipped oot fae i weddin and found a (2019) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
an aul phone loaded the toast nipped oot to put screenwash in car (2020) search twitter
n Wis it Johnny Raminski that nipped across there somehow(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
7! Nae doobt will get ma lugs nipped fan I finally stagger in bit (2018) search twitter

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@alfordbrad Hope ye nipped in for coo fae e' Forest Fair(2020) search twitter
@polscotdogs I hope she nipped their erses. Well done ????(2020) search twitter
@polscotdogs Hope he nipped their erses!(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The stretches pulled and nipped on page 107

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
"Wake up, Dormoose!" An they nipped eet oan baith sides at yince. on page 71
din fur a doze; but, oan bein nipped b' th Hatter, eet woke up agi on page 74

2 matches

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