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The word 'bawbees'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bawbeesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 21 16 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bawbees in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
d get awa wi skailin a puckle bawbees tae Urban Intelligentsia, Eff
1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
wrackin i future for bawbees noo. on page 31

1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
t is ower A can steal sum odd bawbees frae ma guidman, an yird thai on page 48

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
o pawkie words an a haundfu o bawbees noo an agane, juist eneuch ta
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
aufed or even quartert siller bawbees. Aften he got nae mair tae ea
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
owls tae daith for a haunfu o bawbees - faur less thirty pieces o on page 34

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Coontin his bawbees, on page 26

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
wis never able tae mak enough bawbees tae buy hauf the things his f on page 5
e haill faimly saved up their bawbees for that yin special occasion on page 6
t tae the shoaps wi haunfus o bawbees, In yin toun, a kenspeckle ga on page 28
ainly wey he could earn a few bawbees wis by howkin the snaw aff th on page 46
y were glowerin at the siller bawbees lyin there. The bawbees were on page 52

7 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
neath the note wis a couple o bawbees for the messages. on page 31

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
fingirin tickets an bawbees on page 48

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
for the cuprous gleet o lost bawbees on page 4

1 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
gin ye haena the rowth o the bawbees, on page 43

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Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
cried. "How wid ye like some bawbees tae fill thae empty pooches?" on page 28

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
in aboot thare no bein eneuch bawbees for aw the airts, an insteid on page 110

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
s buik is warth peyin oot the bawbees byles doun tae whit a body's on page 130

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