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Use in varieties of Scots

weesht Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.6 7.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences115 5 0 0 1 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of weesht in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ah weesht that we wur thaim. on page 53

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ah weesht fir on page 127

1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
"Weesht, it's jist me, Emma."
1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
ol @billykayscot @OorVyce Och weesht, I’m glowin reid.(2020) search twitter
@DrNeilKirk @Lenniesaurus Weesht. I blame the aipple juice.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
aff, he garrt them haud their weesht, cause they kent he wis Chris on page 86
agin an telt him tae haud his weesht, bit he jist roart aa e mair, on page 111
tell ye, gin they haud their weesht, e verra steens wad cry oot." on page 112
a e fowk, sae they held their weesht an were dumfoonert b; his ans on page 114

4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
elieve we didnae hiv haud yer weesht in the database mony thanks t(2014) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
grew up kennin whit it meant, weesht Ah'd seen yer post afore(2020) search twitter