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The word 'flunkey'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flunkeyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.8354
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 81.4 14 1
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 54.7 5 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 63.7 14 1
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 flunkey in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
dö nixt, whin aa at wance a flunkey in uniform cam runnin oot o d on page 56
ttit oot ageen da Fishy-faced Flunkey wis geen, an da idder een wis on page 57
be some ös i dee pickin," da Flunkey said, as if shö wis never sp on page 58

14 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
e castle door. Wittgenstein's flunkey cam runnin doon. "Ging up an on page 90
in fae reid tae fyte. "Ma ain flunkey kens ye did! An Ayr an aa!" on page 91

5 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
(An it's maister as a flunkey) on page 18
the rescue cam the high heid flunkey on page 19

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
e next, when aw ae a sudden a flunkey in livery came runnin oot ae on page 55
n nex she peeped oot the Fish-Flunkey wis away, an the ither yin wi on page 56
in yer chappin the door," the Flunkey went oan, throwin her the rub on page 57

14 matches

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