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The word 'gowp'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gowpOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus20.3664
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 84.9 64 2
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gowp in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
grab the bottle, gowp the haill doon
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
He swallaed her in wan big gowp. on page 36

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Teeger that Cam for his Tea, (Floris Kelpies 2018 ISBN: 978-1782504665) Central, weans
GOWP! on page 6

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
r wis a laddie cawed Augustus Gowp, and Mr Baffie's evenin newsp on page 26
'Yon's Augustus Gowp!' on page 65
lad stepped up. 'I'm Augustus Gowp,' he said. on page 68
er warkers?' spiered Augustus Gowp. on page 70
ress - awbody forby Augustus Gowp wha taen a muckle haunfu. on page 76
Also on pages 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 167
59 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
Jist gowp it doon, and hae nae fear. on page 15
'Are ye gonnae gowp it aw doon in the yin gollop? on page 38

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Wee Story Aboot Love, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
then aw he heard wis a muckle GOWP! on page 77

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
nnae hirple owremuch or it'll gowp even mair!(2020)