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The word 'dookers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dookersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 dookers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
bour. Feel free tae bring yer dookers an ging for a sweem wi the lo on page 37

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
said Morrice, adjustin is new dookers. "Ess place is jist the bees- on page 43

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fat hingin ower the tap o his dookers. on page 11
rra thocht o seein her in her dookers wis makkin him feel nae weel. on page 36

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Her wee gowdfIsh Dookers, nocht feedin. The birdies oo
ed at the neuk o ilkie ee. As Dookers the gowdfish watched, the pea
them the day. An I’ll feed Dookers noo.” Efter Jeannie hid fee
ft, the auld wummin winkit at Dookers an keckled.
e weel, isn’t it noo.” An Dookers the gowdfish blew a hale stri
5 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
atin doon i' Burn o' vat, nae dookers brocht wi' me on page 175

1 matches

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