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Use in varieties of Scots

sickly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 2 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences74 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of sickly in Corpus

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Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
d, gean her anither yin o his sickly smiles, as he heided for the on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ng ah kin smell that familiar sickly aroma omittin fae it. He then on page 63
rity and ah almost OD oan the sickly aroma ae desperation that lin on page 121

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
that seems tae compliment the sickly yella paint that’s been sla
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
enuch bit ere's aye the same sickly smell: a mixter o cubbuge, in on page 45

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
sifyin the plastic’s sweet, sickly scint. The hair on yer heid f
1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
silly = 'feeble, sickly' in StE: A'm vexed tae see yo on page 107

1 matches

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