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The word 'feartie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
feartieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5159
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 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 feartie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Feartie! You winna say onythin. Ye'r on page 7

1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
A was, bit A thocht gaits war feartie baists!”
“Dinnae be sic a feartie! A’ll tak ma bag an jaicket
2 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
“I maunna be a feartie,” whuspered Miss Marjoriban
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
“Och, yer jist a big feartie, ah thocht lions wis supposed
y wear at state occasions). A feartie na mair, he headed back tae h
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
" "Dae as ye're tellt, ye big feartie!" till . _ at last she spreid on page 36

1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
HEID OANSIDE - BRAVEHEART OR FEARTIE? Braveheart or feartie - whi on page

5 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Yin might yell, "Haw! Feartie breeks!" on page 17

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Aw o the feartie Slayers, on page 3

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
am O'Shanter'. If ye're nae a feartie, that is: https://t.co/LU4iii (2019) twitter link

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