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Use in varieties of Scots

shifty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.5 0 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences75 0 1 0 1 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of shifty in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Douglas again crept by wae a shifty gait; she did nae mare than t on page 78

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
the fuck? I go caunny, take a shifty ower the wee waw. Nothin. Nae on page 1

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ng for a wideboy or flyman, a shifty or unscrupulous character. Ch
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
a wee group ay neds staunin; shifty lookin, basebaw caps an hoods
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@fourmenterian tweeted
rminally so. You really are a shifty wee nyaff.(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Tacketie, shark-eyed an shifty, I stryte awey clocked on page 7

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
errupted th Hatter: "let's aw shifty yin place alang." on page 73

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