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The word 'fousome'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fousomeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41811
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 8
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fousome in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Braw gairden wes a fousome glen. on page 91

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ind that this lates display o fousome behaviour hud tae be punished on page 50
r or castor-oil or some ither fousome stuff that wid mak a laddie b on page 120
it this time! Wha played this fousome trick? Wha cowped ower this g on page 160

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
In this fousome oam, until the drowe on page 22
fair fousome wi aw that he wis. on page 62

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Braw gairden wes a fousome glen. on page 91

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
lack yird and snochert up its fousome scent. Then chey makkit a tou on page 6

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
The fousome waff o chicken driftit doon t on page 31
wheeched forrit tae grup the fousome food. on page 54

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Deid-thraw fed fousome on a fisher's lead. on page 37
Braw gairden wis a fousome glen. on page 53

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
din o her bairnhood, tellt in fousome Scots bi hir ain sel on a Sco on page 54

1 matches

Fyall, Aitken Lallans 58 - The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Fousome mait wi the laird at his braw on page 80

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
erarie tradeetion aw the mair fousome.
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
rithers, toun bairns, wad tak fousome delicht in oor veesits tae hi
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
n Glencoe! Whit massacre? Wir fousome o MacDonalds! Jist skek at a on page 45

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Wilson, Glen Yarns 3 - A Ghaist Train in Portrush, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Portadown, poetry
an Mother Macrees’ fousome shawls.
1 matches

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