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The word 'cowboy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cowboyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52511
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 30.7 6 3
AYR - Ayrshire 53.4 5 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 cowboy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ed in the toilets, I hid on a cowboy hat! on page 29
They handed me a cowboy hat and, lurkan there beneath on page 30

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
on weerin a denim sark an ma cowboy hat an beets...an mebbe yon a on page 56
Ronnie keepit on his cowboy hat an sut doon opposite Chan on page 57
. "Ye've fairly made an effi, cowboy - Ah canna see aat ye're jis on page 58
Ronnie haived his cowboy hat ower the escaped breest a on page 60
plummetin te the soles o his cowboy beets - fit a bloody fiasco on page 61

6 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
riding ye reverse cowboy, on page 34

1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
388967 snitch. Dinae use this cowboy. Call Shay @Shay2920 #snitch (2020)

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
a singin alang tae Rhinestone Cowboy is parteecularly effective in on page 14
ma bit, beltin oot Rhinestone Cowboy. on page 18

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
that had a picture ae a cowboy haudin a smokin gun. She also on page 53

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"Aye, an yer granny wis a cowboy!" said Alice. "Ye don't even on page 117

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
I dae a stupit gesture lit a cowboy haud n a gun, 'ae try and see on page 3

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
“Git yer cowboy outfit oan. The milky bar kid
d a waistcoat an a black felt cowboy-hat wi’ white-looped braid
w dressed up like a chocolate cowboy.
imidated bi a single lonesome cowboy, things’d slither through t
4 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
t aboot mak oot the image o a cowboy on his horse wi a lasso threi on page 23

5 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
in the swappin oO comics and cowboy annuals, on page 5

1 matches

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