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The word 'greba'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grebaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 102.5 2 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 84.3 6 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of greba in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Cotton chiels, Green Boys o Greba, an Hairts o Doon on page 1

1 matches

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
Through Cardy tae Greba
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Ye micht weel lach, ye Greba craa, or gar ye grue, on page 21

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
enC Aye, Hugh planted Ards an Greba: his brither George was the B (2016) twitter link
Daft sign in #Greba / Greyabbey: wha but a coof o (2014) twitter link
o the aul Ulster Scots wurd #Greba, for the clachan in the Airds (2014) twitter link
mieson I ken James Porter fae Greba was hanged ootside the kirk. (2014) twitter link

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
e rouch yin! (the wun, no the Greba fowk) https://t.co/72FYNzZApF(2020)
hope he says 'Care-dur' and 'Greba' richt :)(2020)