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The word 'hoastit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoastitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3114
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
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 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 2
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 hoastit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hovel in a sup coal. The fire hoastit oot a black pluffert o rikk a
ikk an the spittin sticks, da hoastit. It wis quate in the room, na
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
an wheeze. She splootered an hoastit an whizzled an muckle snotter
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
aur when he lay doun. When he hoastit, his kist crecklt an his spit on page 75

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
n caucht in mids o a lee, she hoastit twa-three times, tae bs pit t on page 32
The flooer hoastit. But it wisna because she had on page 34

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
Mr. Poe hoastit anither twa-three times intae on page 9
ankie and, coverin his mooth, hoastit intae it a guid wheen o times on page 66
id. For a guid wee meenit, he hoastit intae a hankie while awbody w on page 149
Mr. Poe hoastit. "Haud on a wee," he said, lo on page 160

5 matches

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