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The word 'eyeballs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eyeballsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 eyeballs in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
rough an it wis filled wi her eyeballs. on page 29

1 matches

West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
Ah'm wound richt upty the eyeballs, and the ideas huv startit co on page 102

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
yes against the noo dryin yir eyeballs oot wind, an I cannae help bu on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
He stoaps drummin his haun an eyeballs him fur a couple ay seconds a
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
usherin me oot. The big cunt eyeballs me aw the waiy, through the o
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
yer in the hoose, up tae yer eyeballs in Xmas wrapping paper, it's (2022) twitter link