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The word 'cockin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cockinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.894
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 cockin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fir't. Jist listen," he said, cockin his lug, "ye can hear the kni on page 14

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hocht o the muckle black Deil cockin his hooves in the moo o a cav
n whinneyied, the broken been cockin clean throw the skin, the rey
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
umbazement o steel an glaiss, cockin up on its hunkers ower a stam
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
wis a wee loon wi pirn-taes, cockin-oot lugs an a kittlin caad Sa
twa hornier cockin up abune his heid jist like a
2 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ge, like a muckle black wyver cockin in its wab bi the ingle. on page 51

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Post-Its, (sandyfleming.org 2005) Central - East Lothian, poetry
cockin, daffin, crawin crouse.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ie wee movements wi his heid, cockin it this wey and that, and tak on page 67

1 matches

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