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The word 'daud'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daudOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus24.18025
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central 91.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 7
WCE - West Central 35.5 8 4
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 85.4 8 1
LAL - General Central 51.2 39 10
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 daud in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
p o't wi a thump He clapped a daud o suet The maist enormous lum on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
eeze o sums on the boord wi a daud o chakk - it skreiched fin i
g stoppit a meenit tae claw a daud o birsslit neep frae the foun
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
daud o sham an a scoosh o adder’
wkin aneth a steen wi an auld daud o wid, fur wirms. Horny-golla
pit twa crunchy carrots an a daud o sweet neep on ilkie ain.
up a fine crisp lettuce an a daud o kail.
the lavvie. Skirly stude on a daud o soap an skytit inno the tap
7 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
45 Dar Oma a muckle daud o clud pinkish frae ceetie li on page 3

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
aa He'd hid tae wirk wi wis a daud o clay frae the grun. I likit on page 51

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Hae ye pit a daud o thit cream on yir haunds yi
1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
its heids aff. He jagged the daud o burnin widd ontae he beast' on page 13
"Come up tae ma palace for a daud o breid and some skoosh." on page 39

2 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
wisna expeckin it, ye'd get a daud o pottie ahent yer lug. It wa on page 86

1 matches

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
The thing wes a daud o grey plastic, a wee bit big on page 86

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Ootby, the reuch grey's a daud o clagginess; on page 28

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
s a English story wi a muckle daud o Scots nairitive. Here a sam
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
n champit tatties wi a mukkil daud o
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the database, but I catched a daud o thair crack: “...first a
1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ity, for me, wis a novelty, a daud o colour, a new wird or twa.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
honest report, intae a muckle daud o glaikit meaninless fiction.
1 matches

West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
eekit as a cat, cut aff a big daud o his ringlets in the shape o on page 102

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
on the speedometer cables, a daud o paint here and there and a on page 44
hink it's a lot better than a daud o metal,' Matilda said. "That on page 68
hat ye were naethin but a wee daud o drite! Whit's yer faither's on page 138

3 matches

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
. Dottit roond the place wi a daud o Blu-Tack an some A4 sheets
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
e can ayeweys git haud it and daud it tae haud it an daud it fur (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And a big daud o surrealism on yer shae. on page 43

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ked an boked an needit a guid daud on the back. Houever, when it on page 28
ext saicont she felt a muckle daud ablow her chin: her chin had on page 44

5 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
spare a wee poke o meal an a daud o kebbock, I'll be on my wey on page 32
a kittle quey flyped a muckle daud o skin frae Adam's shin-bane. on page 63
tae gang wi it - an a muckle daud o cake. on page 67

3 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
It wis a daud o iced bannock. on page 62
the kitchen. Noo she took the daud o cake that she'd taen fae th on page 70

2 matches

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
a guid daud o parsley fine chappit on page 68

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
affin aroond or A'll gie ye a daud on the lug masel!' on page 22

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
A muckle daud o doggie keech. on page 33

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
s chawin thrawnly on a muckle daud o chawin-gum at the same time on page 37
interest ye tae ken that this daud o gum I'm chawin richt at thi on page 38
s aye chawin that honkin auld daud o chawingum she's had in her on page 64
n her blade o gress, spat the daud o warld-record-cowpin chawing on page 76
Against a muckle daud o fudge" on page 91
Also on pages 105, 107, 108, 155
14 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
The same daud o Cheese has been sat there s on page 9

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
as Kat bit intae her piece, a daud o the crust fell ontae the gr on page 14
led upwards tae jouk a fleein daud o rock. Doug swerved tae the on page 16
ide each o which wis a muckle daud o rock. It luiked like dizzen on page 18

3 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
never I see a live snail on a daud o lettuce,' Grannie said, 'I on page 7
erin whither tae pit in a wee daud o this or a wee daud o yon. W on page 17
efter him. 'I splairged in a daud o anti-freeze.' on page 88

4 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
been makkin. It wis a square daud o board wi the name o the hoo on page 148

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
id," said Albert, wi a muckle daud o tattie stuck atween his tee on page 14
enit as he swallaed a teuchit daud o bean. "But oor maw and da n on page 15
they chowed their brekfast, a daud o grim, gray parritch Coont O on page 31
y picked awa at their ain wee daud o scran, ower dulesome tae ea on page 52

4 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ndle, an gied the ploushare a daud wi his hemmer tae strauchten on page 17

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
cauld ashes, the maid foond a daud o tin in the shape o a hert, on page 81

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Flittin In, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
nnae whaur somane’d kickt a daud oot the rottit frunt ane). Na
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
, a sprackle o sugar an a wee daud o jam. It wis gied tae us bai
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
preserve a daud
no a guid daud o
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
A verbal daud
1 matches

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