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The word 'hokin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hokinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6126
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 131.2 2 2
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 256.1 5 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 30 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of hokin in Corpus

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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
thrapin, hokin, it aal. on page 15

1 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
quaverin, he come aff Bab’s hokin doag a snite wae the blakthoa
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Hokin, wigglin, garravashin, on page 6
was anither jaa bane. He kept hokin an anither, an anither, an an on page 13
Hokin, an rhymes a body cudnae read on page 27
Lacken days spent hokin in some gumlie sheugh or clar on page 50

4 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
tradeetion o writin in Scots. Hokin through oul leeterature fae U
1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
hool for two whole weeks spud hokin for tae go
pent when you were out proota hokin"
2 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
y Dundonald a dander the day. Hokin for the Kempe Stanes, biggit (2016) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
thaim, a big herd o pigs wus hokin fer food. An tha ïll spirits on page 9
o a bïg herd o pïgs wus oot hokin on tha hïll, an tha demons b on page 83

2 matches

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