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The word 'hee-haw'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hee-hawOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5186
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 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 31.9 7 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 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 hee-haw 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.

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
straucht intae office an did hee-haw aboot it, Trump plichtit fowk
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
a wee tait mair than a haird hee-haw, an that the spreidin sílenc
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
"Aye, well, they hid hee-haw choice," the Mock Turtle said on page 101
"Hee-haw," said Alice. on page 116

4 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
yer entitlet tae hee-haw on page 9
Hee-Haw The Puddocks O! on page 20

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
cos ay the music, but thirr's hee-haw happening here noo." on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
10 medium-wave - an it'd mak hee-haw difference, if aw thon Scots on page 3

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
'If you've come hame wi sweet hee-haw!' on page 13
Ex-jockeys aw wi hee-haw money. on page 24

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Because they dinnae hae hee-haw on page 159

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
in in yer hert that there wis hee-haw chance o it actually happenin on page 60
in loco parentis, and there's hee-haw onybody else can dae aboot it on page 66
ooks than me, but it did yese hee-haw guid in the end. Noo, gie me on page 110

3 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
oon-drappit wi the sicht... o hee-haw. Jist the twa jouksters weavi on page 60

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an whit she disnae ken's hee-haw. on page 29

1 matches

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