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The word 'gawped'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gawpedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.8328
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 64.4 14 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.6 14 3
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 gawped in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
Foo da bairns a Rörick man a gawped
1 matches

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 82 - Ae Legend o Sanct Benedict, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
in his action - her mou gawped wide open on page 52

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Ah gawped at him an him at me,
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
pons. Then they stopped. They gawped aroond the room. There wis na on page 40
Miss Honey gawped at Matilda, pure dumfoonert, on page 65
Miss Honey gawped at her. Then she lifted a pen on page 68
bein spoken tae like this. He gawped at the flimmer wumman, staund on page 88
in pursuit o her callin. They gawped at this ferlie goddess, and s on page 102
Also on pages 118, 119, 168, 183, 191, 192, 197, 213, 228
14 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
which yerkit an gawped, its een-glint spurtan, tae p on page 112

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
The troot woke and rose, and gawped at the lassie, and swallied a on page 3

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Folk in the toun stapped and gawped: "Whit's gaun on?" they yowle on page 20
msels up on their pillaes and gawped wi anxious een at the bar o c on page 32
They baith gawped at whit wis in ablow it. It w on page 44
Mrs Baffie jist stood and gawped, while the fower auld grandpa on page 56
rums restit on their oars and gawped up at the veesitors. Then sud on page 93
Also on pages 123, 135, 136, 170
9 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
In the cludgie, he gawped at the kenspeckle and dreided on page 18
tak in. She jist glowered and gawped. She looked like she wis aboo on page 60
Awbody gawped at it. on page 61

3 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
We gawped like stookies, watchin her on page 37

1 matches

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