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The word 'breists'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
breistsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33113
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 93 15 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 breists in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
held awa hame strickin their breists as they gaed. An aa his freen on page 120

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
k a richt fine daunce fin her breists war a thochtie fuller.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
a wummin micht weir neist her breists. The sicht gied a lowp tae hi
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Gowden Gate Til Samarkan, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, poetry
An narrer roun thair breists the binwuid reings, on page 30

1 matches

West Central

Kirk Jn, Albert Guid Fences Mak Guid Neibours, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
n ma dochter an clauchtin her breists;
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
her breists staun oot on page 32

1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
ludged atween ma breists. on page 2
Yer twa breists are like twa fownes, on page 8
Yer twa breists like twa fownes, on page 16
wha soukit at ma mither's breists, on page 16
wi yet nae breists; on page 18

8 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
o Weir's cheeks, or Madlove's breists. on page 112

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
erk fae the brain, atween the breists, an athort the solar plexus.
d a puckle steps, her unbound breists firm unner the tunic. She tan
flattent swell o her bound-up breists - that wis a want, somebody
whan he discovert that her breists wisna bound up, an rowed on t
ant towart him, leadin wi her breists, which were glowin wi the ach
6 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
icht hae been wastin awa. Her breists were big an tender, and her w on page 55

2 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
tho milk's aye buckin frae ma breists unner ma lace an steys; on page 40
I wade in, up tae ma breists, ma jaw chitterin, on page 45
bluid atween ma breists, sypin through on page 81

3 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
skin, an owerbrimmin breists, and thae luistit aifter hir on page 14

3 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - On War, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
ns at is fed frae the wuzzent breists o that mither in ice cauld sh
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
In wee breists there wis calm on page 10

1 matches

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