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The word 'flashy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flashyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 flashy in Corpus

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West Central

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
n, their designs detailed and flashy. The gates swung open soundle
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Glasgow Uni graduate. He's a flashy bastard, drives a Mercedes an on page 37

1 matches

General Central

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
aes that he wis aye happit in flashy-dashy duds like naebdy else's on page 56

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
Btw where’s awe yer Spinny! Flashy! Photies?? ??(2019)
@ClydeFC ??. Still nae Flashy Sparkley goal thing yit?(2019)

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