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The word 'bruiser'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bruiserOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.244
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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 bruiser in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sale: the ingine, thresher ay bruiser fae the barn; sheep, nowt, pi on page 94

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
k is Big Tam's best mate. Big bruiser ae a cunt, easy six fit two n on page 21

1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
Whit dae you want?' speired a bruiser o a man ahint the gate, haudi on page 48

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
eya tae be ma bride, seys the bruiser wioot a glim o shame. on page 14

1 matches

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