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The word 'boabby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boabbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.4243
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 95.6 21 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 boabby in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
in. Grievously fur ma belovit Boabby it wiznae tae pass iz he hizs on page 78

2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ets awey. A proper Greyfriars Boabby, so the wee man is. A fact th
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
Boabby takes charge. ‘C’moan, gu
‘Sergio!’ says Boabby.
™ Sergio pits his airms round Boabby and plants a big kiss on each
John looks at me and then at Boabby. ‘Roberto?’
‘It’s ma name,’ says Boabby.
21 matches

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