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The word 'begunk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
begunkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4185
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
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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) 204.9 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 90.1 9 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of begunk in Corpus

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ither o ma gleg wee jinks tae begunk the customer, Never ask fur a on page 46

1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Dinnae begunk me wi gomerels naur!
1 matches

General Central

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Tae begunk his folks' faes an big his ai on page 22

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
e been a ferlie, no tae say a begunk, tae the youthfu collector, w on page 69

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Can getts begunk an glipes berate, on page 28
(a quare begunk for glaikit Dave): on page 40
a quare begunk. on page 46
ye gie yersel a begunk. on page 58

4 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ly (constitutional) gied it a begunk in 1689 (2015) twitter link
wull hae tae wait for a quare begunk. We'll hae tae see can we no (2015) twitter link
tae gie the high-heid-yins a begunk. (2015) twitter link
ster Scots? That'd be a quare begunk. (2015) twitter link
The weans gien a begunk by #results2015 shudnae fash (2015) twitter link
and 4 other occurrences.