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The word 'geez'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
geezOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6209
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 geez in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
@SbBarclay Geez ye a buzz eh? (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Geez oh! Are the quines shorts get(2018)
Geez oh! Ye forget ae Doric wirdie(2018)

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
@sallieaxl geez a flash o yer gash(2013)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Geez, spik aboot ma legs nae being(2016)
Geez, yon barmaid manager come toa(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
rry fur his work so he didnae geez the full story. Dae yae ken w on page 33
He geez me an approvin noad aboot ma on page 39
Which geez the boay enough time tae make on page 45
fae his big auld bear paws. "Geez that fuckin hing" on page 135

4 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
yir presence geez me thi boke, on page 45
Ah nah - dinna geez it, on page 51
Eh love thi texture it geez ti thi air on page 74
so dinna geez yir shite on page 107

4 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
g even close to yer vicinity. Geez the artisanal cleaver!’.
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
An action which inadvertently geez me the opportunity tae soak i
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
the Costa Del Sol. Ah hink it geez him some hope that it be migh
1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
black, wae honey hen” ??. “Geez a shout up when it’s ready”(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
-oot fur snakes nicht an day! Geez, Ah havnae hae a wink o sleep on page 51
dae tae meet thum this size: geez, Ah would gliff thum oot thei on page 53

2 matches

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