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The word 'defiant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
defiantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 defiant in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
defiant in the face on page 65

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
clan o hyenas mingled wi the defiant roar o ae lion determined tae
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
eScottishFB loving this - be defiant guys - yous r legends lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
It proodly stuid defiant in the rain on page 14

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
faced Iqbal. Her posture wis defiant, bit she spake quate eneuch.
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
confront the screen, wi defiant optimism and, of course, inev on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
haur yestreen he had nailed a defiant declaration tae the mercat cr on page 35

1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
same loud vyce an a wee thing defiant nou. on page 29

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
udin Aist Lothian, an anither defiant rally roond the reid baunner
This mornin, a wabbit, but defiant Kezia Dugdale gied an intervi
2 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
boot got awfie firm and kinda defiant, finger-waving every time the (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
Are folk mair confident, even defiant aboot speakin Scots noo? #Sco (2020) twitter link

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