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The word 'boaby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boabyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of boaby in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
and he's playin wi his boaby, on page 33

1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
cer108 @johnnydee72 fazziboy? Boaby Dylan?(2016)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
aye, baws, beelin, blootered, boaby, boggin, burroo, cludgy, gall
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ame's Bobby. ROBBIE LIKES THE BOABY, shoutet Lyndon. Him an aw hi on page 169

1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
@sheenz_m_ @jot_not Wee boaby? ??. ????????(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
Kay Aye hen ah wannae keep ma boaby! (2022) twitter link