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The word 'beelin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
beelinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.72510
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 46 10 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 1
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 beelin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
Aff yer heid, Ah, aye, baws, beelin, blootered, boaby, boggin, bu
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
nt. She could feel the dirdum beelin up inside her. She kent it wi on page 22
nt she wisnae. Her wrath kept beelin and beelin inside her, and as on page 23
e a rapier, 'this knurl, this beelin blype, this pizenous plook th on page 114
bein dead rauchle and she wis beelin because somebody hud managed on page 155
. and risin . .. She wis that beelin that somethin inside her wis on page 158
Also on pages 166, 196, 223
10 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
some fir, then?" Alice said, beelin. on page 66
evidence," the King repeatit, beelin,; "ir ah'll hiv ye executit, on page 110

2 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Wi beelin bluid ma een met his, on page 10

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
here's Susie's pint - she's beelin, oor lass, on page 100

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Boakin every time ye wake an beelin in yer breasts. on page 79

1 matches

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
in' somehin' else tae sen' me beelin'... so the 'facts an' figures
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ht o the Republican Pairty is beelin aboot aw this – but beelin
aboot aw this – but beelin that it’s been published, a
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ed th Moose, shairply an fair beelin. on page 30
k tae offer eet," said Ablice beelin. on page 66

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
beelin-eened cuddies lean over a haz on page 10
gowden sauns in beelin sun, on page 63
an lichts hale days wi beelin oors o Lockdoon. on page 77

3 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Breenge, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central, poetry
beelin-eened cuddies lean over a haz
1 matches

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