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The word 'blustery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blusteryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6154
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 57.6 13 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 blustery in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Sooth win dis blaw blustery an cauld,
Blustery win, gang aboot twa fauld.
Odd blustery shoor, jist bear an grin.
Mair than a blustery win oot o the Wast,
Blustery win sae saft aye an het,
6 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Gran day bit blustery win dis blaw,
Fine hairst day wi a blustery win.
Cauld blustery win the hale day lang,
Blustery North win maks the day feel r
Blustery bit warm, nae a bad day ava.
6 matches

@Franwella tweeted
Bit blustery th day. Jist passed lorry on (2011)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in the air in defiance ay the blustery conditions. It hovers, suspen
1 matches

General Central

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
g the cliff path. There wis a blustery wind that day, an whit wi the on page 59

1 matches

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