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The word 'buck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
buckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.93316
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 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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) 204.9 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 164.2 5 2
GUL - General Ulster 40 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of buck in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
" Tina grinned, a raa o yalla buck teeth stickin hine oot ower e on page 56

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
s never taken them. Needs tae buck his ideas up. (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
la_X @theSNP Confused wee the Buck hoose mob scattered roon the (2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
nights stag doo. Told him to buck up his ideas or he will end u(2016)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
her - she said if ah didnae buck up ma grades, ah'd be lucky t on page 169

2 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
But no in meh veins, thi rye buck booze on page 6
n earn meh braed - an honest buck. on page 47
an earn meh braed an honest buck. on page 49

4 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
fabric against th’head. Ah buck up towards him, ma cock needy
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Six bottles ae Buck. Nae bother boays, nae bother on page 13
oonie doesnae gee a fuck. The buck's landed at ma door. It seems on page 54

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
she’s too auld fur a young buck like me, you’re welcome tae
‘Young buck? Is that no whit you were bol
2 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
the Pictish Jarl, Maelbrighte Buck Tuith. Sum sey Sigurd hid dev on page 14

3 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@gorbalsgoebbels No, nae gin: buck fast fir I am ae I'll-educati(2020)

@Sinethugcat tweeted
in charge of Scotgov, so the buck should stop with her. But yes (2021) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Wi yin buck lepp A near won owre, on page 16
Til A buck tha cursed things oot. on page 22
We gaed buck mad whan "Big G" scored! on page 41
Or buck eejit MacCassey, wired tae th on page 49

4 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Shovin lake buck mad. on page 18

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
ter an Harry was gulderin, ‘Buck buck buck buck!'
buck buck buck!'
2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
hat tearin aboot an takin mad buck lepps is no for the #UlsterSc (2016) twitter link
ry: nae ganshes, slabbers nor buck eejits in the pub! https://t. (2016) twitter link
n wee step for man - a quare buck lepp for mankind" https://t.c (2019) twitter link
fairies an blaw the horns o a buck goat! (2014) twitter link