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The word 'bookie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bookieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus123922
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 43.1 17 4
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
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 bookie in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
a bookie's biro sufficed. Ga on page 12

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
feenished a thriller an a wee bookie o Doric short stories." on page 30
Ah nurse the wee black bookie against ma breest, wrestlin f on page 79

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
r husband added tae oor Facey bookie page at https://t.co/p5e7CPVa(2014)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
aavie fir a filey, so bring a bookie)(2019)
Fit a rare bookie https://t.co/Z8aSoRKbwY(2019)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Tikken fae GG Jamieson's 1937 bookie. Fun, an A doot open tae heal (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
he 'programme' - is that the bookie ye're huddin in yer haan?' on page 45

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
nnie or wifie, wid ye read ma bookie? on page 112
Havin read I'bookie on page 139

2 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
and tae get beat the morn and bookie cad me athing(2016)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
arnt me hou tae screive oot a bookie's line, hou tae pley pitch an on page 85
at, or tae gie a line til the bookie's rinner. In ae week, I lost on page 86

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
en remain competitive wae the bookie when it's suttin close tae be on page 28
en fucked maire times wae the bookie than a two quid hooker oan he on page 29
vision ae gittin yin oor the bookie. on page 30
meboady is aboot tae take the bookie tae the final roond. It's fun on page 40
are. "But he goat yin oor the bookie and we kin aw agree there's n on page 44
Also on pages 117
7 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
din ma last twa pound tae the bookie. Noo, that's doo-lally! on page 35

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
cookie' is rhymin slang for 'bookie'! This is a line for yon book on page 58
er richt nem on the line. The bookie's rinner kens whit nondyploom on page 59
ollector for Joe Swankie, the bookie. Aiblins Hecky's awe Joe a bi on page 60

6 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ther Rab tae nip doon tae the bookie and pit on her tanner Trixie.
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ye. He looked like a scourie bookie done up tae the nines fur his on page 44

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Bookie's line also-ran o it, on page 3758

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Wee Tam the Bam, the bookie’s runner Fronted up wi’ j
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
gnet that went on tae write a bookie or twa, an ither on page 26

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
en! Two ae yees ir built like bookie's pens, man. Seen more solid on page 30

1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
e will in later years, to the bookie's. on page 72

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
ty. Mind ma uncle describin a bookie as bein “only in it for the (2020)

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
yer time in a bookie's ur a boozer's ye widnae kno
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
Ye'll never see a bookie oan a bike!(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
r en barred frae ivery pub an bookie's shap in the toon on accooon on page 49

1 matches

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