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The word 'heave'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heaveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91611
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 heave in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
The hen teuk wan almighty heave, an flew aaf wi a skrek. on page 97

1 matches

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@kat_cary He gies me the dry heave ??(2021)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rred his intiimers stiffen an heave. Jenny hid faan in wi the fla
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
tae?' Dick bawls. 'I'll just heave it oan ma shooder. Stick it i on page 1

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
time to give the snp the big heave ho (2021) twitter link
oh laughter that yous got the heave ho yesterday - have a guid n (2020) twitter link
efo no right efter the latest heave ho (2020) twitter link
ou dont comply - you get the heave ho - who are these people lo (2020) twitter link
u this morning announcing the heave ho fir wee olly gunner - lad (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aid we wur aw gettin gied the heave-ho. It wis stupit because ah on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
think ye kin gie this cat the heave-ho?" on page 84

1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Hack an Heave, Heave an Hack. Nicht an Dey. Snaw a on page 14

2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ime? The nixt again? Ane mair heave, comrades, and Labour wull re
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
teroids. Time tae gie her the heave-ho. She's no actually Scottis (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
preach a sermon, heave a sigh, on page 93

1 matches

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