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The word 'gruff'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gruffOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8165
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster 284.3 10 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gruff in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ey, whit ye dae'n?" shouted a gruff voice. on page 41

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
there?' he uttered in a hard, gruff vyce. on page 29

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the old salt's gruff approval on page 50

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
aed Jenny tae the Billy Goats Gruff wuiden play park. An there th
in unnerneath the Billy Goats Gruff brig on their bellies.
I waited bae the Billy Goats Gruff brig as Jenny trip-trapped ow
3 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
Three Billy Goats Gruff
oats. Thur wus Wee Billy Goat Gruff. Thur wus Big Billy Goat Gruf
. Thur wus Big Billy Goat Gruff. An thur wus
Wile Big Billy Goat Gruff.
Little Billy Goat Gruff sed,
10 matches

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