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The word 'clumsy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clumsyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of clumsy in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
O Nick's richt clumsy fingers, on page 26

1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
Great clumsy brutes, they squat ootowre on page 10

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
A'm a clumsy galoot on page 81

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
aegon Ridiculously narrow and clumsy definition tae start with (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Withoot thae clumsy hauns o mine.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
cht,” he sayed, “Ah’m a clumsy ful.” He wandert aff. She s
r had tane her be surprise - clumsy eejit.
2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
mebody that wis kinna muckle, clumsy an awkward in their movements on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
ckons me. I cross to My Lady, clumsy and embarrassed at her attent on page 3

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
t he had tummelt ower his ain clumsy buits and faain asleep. It wa on page 17

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
s’ can be used to describe a clumsy, awkward person or even a foo(2020)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
xcept for 'cach handed' as in clumsy. https://t.co/ZFTJpKxVKH (2021) twitter link