Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'chookie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

chookie	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	25.8	84	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	16.3	5	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	99.5	75	5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.8	2	2
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 chookie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
feed her feathery chairges. 'Chookie -chookie-chook-chook-chookie'
-chookie-chook-chook-chookie ' she wheedlit, rattlin the dr
in the dry seed in the pail. 'Chookie chookie chook chook chook.'
chookie chook chook chook.'
4 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
A furst fund Ye in a chookie's egg roon wairm on page 3

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
oppit scrapin the flesh fae a chookie's breestbane an insteid pit t on page 9

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
The Broon Chookie on page 50
A broon chookie wis dabbin aboot if the yaird on page 52
'Chookie,'' he said. 'Chook-chook-choo on page 53
The chookie got tae its feet. It wis gey on page 54
n fire,' Grannie yowled. 'The chookie's on fire!' on page 55
Also on pages 56, 58, 59, 61, 74, 75, 80, 81, 82, 85, 87, 90, 91, 92, 98
60 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
it be this time? A sonsie fat chookie fae Boggin? A deuk or a goose on page 7
Boggin wis hiddlin ahint his Chookie Hoose Nummer Yin, Mr Tod wid on page 8
s aff a honkin humph o rotten chookie-skins. Boonce bowfs o goose-l on page 10
'Ye've had yer last chookie!' skirled Boggin. 'Ye'll no c on page 27
Boggin picked up a reekin chookie and held it richt ower the to on page 31
Also on pages 37, 40, 44, 49, 72
12 matches

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

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
k tae the drawin board ya wee chookie(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
k tae the drawin board ya wee chookie(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
A 'hen' is a chookie, on page 19

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
haur extremes met forby. Some chookie wis Shug ????????????????(2020)