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Use in varieties of Scots

queek Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 0 1.5 208.7 0 0 0
Number of occurrences220 1 21 0 0 0
Number of authors9 1 8

Occurrences of queek 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.

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
e White Rabbit, jumpan up as queek as e leck; "iss paper has joo on page 114

1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the dancers queek and queeker fiew, on page 29

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
hing on. Hid aal happened so queek that nobody else hid a chance on page 16
ything haeled aap as bonny an queek as if id hid aal been deun in on page 17
ae be, they can change ferfal queek!" on page 21
l git him noo!" Tam yells oot queek, an teuk aaf in a dive. on page 79

5 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
eeded no more telleen - ah'm queek tae suss things oot. on page 7
The time is mairchan on so queek - twa thoosand years and wan on page 44
"Dad! Dad! Come queek and throw hid oot - hid's st on page 60
fer in the pick-up, boys, so, queek, let's jump aboard. on page 64
aal gaan hame fae the toon. Queek, lads, get up here in the cab on page 65

5 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
oor shaks her heid an fires a queek peedie freesk. 'T'll ask," sh on page 117
hir steps an skips is naet an queek, birlan each ither wi weel-ke on page 135

2 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
An he'll throttle you queek wae yir aown shoe-laece on page 89

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Ha. 'Shael be nippan in fur a queek Baileys an a cantar roond the on page 86
Dansan a queek step wae a lafan scorrie on page 90

2 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An queek as queek shae let hid fly on page 84
the dancers queek and queeker flew on page 155

3 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
So thowt eyed gae hid a queek swash. on page 104

1 matches

Lamb, Gregor Lamb’s Tales, (The Orkney Dictionary 2005) Orkney, prose
home and she couldna git home queek enough. Gaan up the bumpy roa
1 matches

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