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The word 'grumphies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grumphiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3116
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 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 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 3
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of grumphies in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
cam the yowes, the coos, the grumphies and the dyeukies. “Are ye n
1 matches

Edinburgh

Purves, Jamie Lallans 102 - Aince, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ang wi faimilies o wee spotty grumphies wha squiled an snouked amang on page 12

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
richt," said the Duchess, "as grumphies hae tae flee; an the m-" on page 44

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
back here afore thae garrison grumphies ower at Sorn hae steirt frae on page 30

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
ife in the end. Youse youthfu grumphies that are hunkert doon in fron on page 6

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
He wis scunnered wi gawpin at grumphies and chookies and kye and shee on page 1
GRUMPHIES WI PORK JAGS, SAIR SPYOGS, BR on page 30
e buhls for beef. Mair muckle grumphies for pork. Mair muckle sheep f on page 62
e had been sae mony sheep and grumphies and kye and stirks tae be gie on page 73

4 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
trap I'd biggit tae catch Wee Grumphies.' on page 43
ated, no meanin Poohs and Wee Grumphies, it's a muckle and majestic A on page 82

2 matches

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