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The word 'chawed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chawedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1175
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 1
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 chawed in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
t wid laist a fyle an nay get chawed oot ower qwik. Eif thi craib' on page 30
k, a felt a bit peckesh, so a chawed een o ma peece's, fyle linen on page 61

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
kle chestnut jaws o the shelt chawed frae side tae side, Minnie be
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
released the juices an fin I chawed it the nicotine bree added so
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Tiddles the kittlin chawed an gnawed intae her surprise
Kirsty the Coo chawed awa at the girse in the park
n oot like a wummily wirm, an chawed his wye oat at the ither en.
a coorse moosies chittered an chawed an gnawed at aipples, an rice
4 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
on by craws, beltit by buhls, chawed by cuddies, chased by ten-fit on page 53

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 67 - Efter the Bonspiel, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
chawed me tae howk deep fur pleesure on page 63

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
hoo mony times ye chawed it. And then Mr Lugmince's fa on page 19
She chawed while walkin tae her wirk, on page 114

7 matches

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