A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Concordance

The word 'couthie'

Use in varieties of Scots

Occurrences of couthie in Corpus

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
imes they didna. This year, a couthie wee faimily bedd in the wee c
kent that he wis a kind an a couthie craitur. Bit fit they DIDNA k
2 matches

Aberdeen

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
Milne, aa in the auld wirds, couthie, bonnie
1 matches

North East Central

(South) East Central

Pete, Fortune Lallans 102 - Trotsky's Treatment, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
otlin ti blythsum days tae is couthie ti me. on page 91

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
he cat ay sattelt doun by her couthie ingle and Ma daednae gae tae on page 1

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
O bluidlust, couthie, douce an meek; on page 91

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ar traditional spellins like "couthie" that A think Scots spaekers
ae traditional spellins like "couthie" (couth + ie), an still uize
2 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - The Man Wha Jeopardeized The Continued Existence O The Universe, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
the shouther, couthie-like. "Ilk time ye see a fall
1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
r it wis exportit amang ither couthie eetems o Breetishness. (Coors
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Still tho, yer couthie vyces, yer nichtingales, awau on page 215

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
gin blads aff ither!). It's a couthie eneuch enn ti a weill-wrocht on page 138
hter, Meg. She is hamelie but couthie, an hir maist kenspekkil feat on page 139
eik. The hinmaist eimage is a couthie ane, shawin maister an dug in on page 141
his poem conteins sum deep an couthie insichts intil the inequaliti on page 142

5 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
l (an A'm shuir we aw hae oor couthie memories). on page 6

1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Guid Fences Mak Guid Neibours, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Yin couthie meenit they'r clappin yer cro
1 matches

Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Couthie an jonick tae vizzie an wecht
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
haes come tae be thocht on as couthie, happit in tartan, the bellum
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
n pig, that haed a cannie and couthie leuk aboot him, for aa that h
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
warnin Allan tae stay in this couthie stied, or risk a naistie shoc
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
An Jessie's couthie manner keeps me richt, on page 8
Whyles wi couthie words in soothing lilt, on page 13
Wi thaur blessed couthie chatter. on page 16

3 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'Leuk! It's bein couthie. It juist wants tae play!' we on page 63

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
O bluidlust, couthie, douce an meek; on page 91

1 matches

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ate personal account that was couthie but no parochial whiles makki on page 60

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Pigs are couthie. Hooanever, on page 41

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
Maist grannies are douce, couthie, helpfu auld buddies, but no on page 2

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
Is a couthie kind o habit on page 52
, and 'Ah, it's yersel,' in a couthie wey tae the wee-er yins, he w on page 70
d, but he kent it wis me. Gey couthie o him, I thocht. Upsteerin.' on page 122
Bear, a Bear wi a Cantie and Couthie Set tae him but a Fair Flegso on page 154

4 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
o thae cantie spuds and the couthie swedes. on page 13

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
oked at each ither. Mebbe, wi couthie Judge Strauss and her library on page 40

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O bluidlust, couthie, douce an meek; on page 53

1 matches

Robertson, James The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Lassie in the Snaw, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e, that had aye luved her, aw couthie and bonnie and sheenin wi smi on page 53

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
n bothies thay uphaud. A mair couthie an cosy ruif ower the heid ca on page 65

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ard hes mum lauchin. A laigh, couthie soond. ‘Here,’ seyd Annie
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
A couthie word described in the Oxford
1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
it an straucht-forrit, wi nae couthie owerlay o affabeility
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
gogs an the lik, but he wis a couthie man an didnae clype on us tae
1 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
nivver hae a future ayont the couthie an the colloquial. Aifter aw,
1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Scots humorous fowk, yaisin a couthie wurd here an there tae tell a
1 matches

solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
ickerly wull. Cranachan's gey couthie, an Toffee an aw aince he ken
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
, Ma een aw red, ma poems get couthie. on page 43

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@StuartPoet tweeted
Whit a braw day and whit gey couthie weans yaisin an giein oot the(2020)
her. 85 noo but gaun oan 25, couthie as ye like.(2020)
sae sterts a hail new wheen o couthie sklentiefruit-relatit saws an(2020)
waa. Nae Scots but ithergaits couthie eh. https://t.co/obP5KBZjO2(2020)
ither contexts forby. It's no couthie wather the noo!(2020)
and 2 other occurrences.

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