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The word 'gowdie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gowdieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gowdie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ale herd o pigs teuk heelster gowdie doon e brae an intae e loch, on page 17

1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
re tae turn his life heelster-gowdie. on page 76

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
boddom o the boit, heles owre gowdie.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
But Gowdie doesnae gie a hoot on page 32
No Gowdie. She jist has tae lee on page 33
Young Gowdie tae a manky end. on page 34

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
He taen a box o gowdie seed aff the shelf 'Mibbe it' on page 24

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
heelster-gowdie piles on tap o the copy o Nup on page 125

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
as tummelin faurrit, heelster gowdie, doun ablaw the swaws o thon on page 17

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 58 - Gairm review, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Gaelic an the Inglis: there a gowdie o a baur by Ian Mac a'Ghobhai on page 126

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - review, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
n a leid at breenges heelster-gowdie frae Castlemulk tae Kirriemui on page 109

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ith quair an peerie, heelster-gowdie, tapsalteerie. on page 77

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
about the meanings! Heelster-gowdie great too, arse over tit. And(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
@StuartPoet Heelster-gowdie! Will have to ask my dad if h(2020)