A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'coof'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coofOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3115
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 107.1 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 113.7 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of coof in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
He's but a coof for a' that. on page 32

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
But a coof, jookin battle, nae worth a s on page 22

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s, bubbly-jock, claes, cloot, coof, galluses, grosset, hems, hoo
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
Keeps bak the gype, the coof an loon, Wad vex his carle. on page 21

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
It's coof-tongued, pishy speak on page 24
Ilk lass an coof in fauncy gear on page 27

2 matches

Dornan, Stephen Ode Tae 2021 , (twitter 2022) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Biden, tha coof, lay doon tae Tha Taliban
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
#Greba / Greyabbey: wha but a coof or a gansh would caa Haird Br (2014) twitter link
The high heid yin was a coof wi a Scotch name: hooinever, (2014) twitter link
e unnerstaun a wurd oot o the coof's bake, sae I jalouse #Camero (2014) twitter link
Nane o you coof-tongued glipes are spakin tho (2014) twitter link