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The word 'cleekit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cleekitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 49.6 8 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cleekit in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
rd "moral", an da airm at wis cleekit inta her een startit ta trimm on page 92

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
eeled, he set, he crossed and cleekit, he spun her roon an furled h on page 94

1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
e. Wis iss anither forego? We cleekit een. Syne, wi a scowffin bizz
1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ckle o Scots fowk had somehou cleekit oot o a treisur kist afore th
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
is ettlin tae offeecially git cleekit thegither unner the new name
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
. Beatrice held her braith an cleekit Bill’s erm ... bit the fuit
Beatrice cleekit hersel as a halper tae Guzul,
Derriakin cleekit it oot o her haun an flang it
in on thair conversation. He cleekit Bill an held his erms, girnin
she had been riskin. She had cleekit on tae the confidence o the W
8 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"moral", an the airm that wis cleekit tae hers, stertit tae trimmle on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
had him cleekit, like a fish. Jist wurds aff on page 18

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
in aboot in here we'll aw get cleekit! Get oot and lea me tae sirpl on page 66
They cleekit their jaurs o cider and awa t on page 72

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
uf-a-dizzen tries had finally cleekit on tae somethin on the touer. on page 122

3 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
Masel, Ah think at Inglis was cleekit ontae be the upper ranks of t on page 9

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
er wi no kennin whit tae dae, cleekit
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
naptious: the twa tongues are cleekit in thir banes. Onyway, it's " (2016) twitter link