Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'blooter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

blooter	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.3	11	9
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	162.8	1	1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	4.9	2	1
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	3
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 blooter in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
ye’d blooter a fitba throu.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
jist as Broonie’s aboot tae blooter it toward goals. The baw take
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
jist as Broonie’s aboot tae blooter it. The baw takes a mad defle
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
e should be ahint bars! Ah'll blooter ye oot o here in disgrace! Ah on page 156

1 matches

Dundee

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
i alarm gied yi a flehg so yi blooter it intae silence- another day
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
e scullery wis staved in wi a blooter frae Boxer’s huif, but ithe
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
r lichtnin speed an skeel tae blooter hauf a dizen goals past their on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
Kat watched Dina blooter a dizzen asterbaws intae oote on page 19
nal were fae planets Skelp an Blooter, sae they were awfie guid sho on page 21

2 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
the corn is a' blooter'd, on page 20

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@WeeScottishMamm Or a wee blooter!(2020)