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The word 'bubbly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bubblyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32114
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 bubbly in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
'""Mabel's nice - she's bubbly." on page 85

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ne else still aetin Christmas bubbly-jock nicht aifter nicht,aifte(2018)
aat ah’m richt fed up aetin bubbly-jock leftowers - sae she boc(2018)
ves. She cam back wi aa these bubbly-jock leftovers. Yum yums, bit(2019)

General Northern

Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
hey were feart he'd develop a bubbly snoot. on page 25

1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
the bold hero wis mair like a bubbly bairn, wi shooglie knees, fea on page 5

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
dnae bein a healer. Her usual bubbly manner hud been replaced wae on page 31
their complimentary gless ae bubbly fae yin ae the waiters, Like on page 48
knoack back another gless ae bubbly. In what is a strategic attem on page 51

4 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
Kye, geese, horse and bubbly-jockies,
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
, custart, pine-aipple, roast bubbly-jock, toffee an het buttert t on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
I'm no allowed a bubbly-jock, on page 18

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
As swippert as a bubbly-jock coud flee. on page 45

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e bletherskite, brae, breeks, bubbly-jock, claes, cloot, coof, gal
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
Fair doos! Bet they'll luve 'Bubbly Jock'! Keep up the guid wark (2019)

@jax6754 tweeted
@nbshow2fm #NewYearsEve a hot bubbly bath, then sittin at hame in (2014)
@andipeters Bubbly bath then Mardi Gras on Edinb(2015)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The demons cackle like bubbly jocks on page 39

1 matches

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