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The word 'hoolie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoolieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62212
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 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 167.4 12 3
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hoolie in Corpus

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General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
r an get awa wae it afore the hoolie at necht. on page 98

1 matches

Bundy Broch The Doric Min, (YouTube 2020) Doric - Brouch, poetry
Oot fan its blawin a hoolie, getting his drars drookit
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
toooooopay 'eh day, blawin' a hoolie ootside min! #BananasMin(2015)

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
nges, an there's wan hell o a hoolie gaun on inby.
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an aft blaw a hoolie on page 46

1 matches

Ayrshire

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - MacCaig’s draucht oan the waa, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
ll I hear a heynd stevin echo hoolie in my heid.
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
weel redd oot, volcanoes burn hoolie an fairlie, withoot eruptions on page 34

1 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
hoolie the urlar, see, an slaw the s on page 17
clap ma naigie, see, an gang hoolie forrit on page 27

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
eaks of smirr, the occasional hoolie, on page 8
A hoolie at the Carse on page 35
in a hoolie where waarm waas yuist tae be on page 43

4 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
er III crossit the Forth in a hoolie an fell aff a cliff and feeni on page 27
blawing a fing hoolie dinnae even think aboot it. O on page 28
they hae a braw scots hoolie, on page 58

3 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
eaks of smirr, the occasional hoolie,
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
rst thing Monday morning in a hoolie. Off now to write poem on why(2020)
nicht. Nae thunner, lichtnin, hoolie nor doonpour. Jist this sunse(2020)
airts whaur it's no blawin a hoolie an comin doon in a shooer o b (2020) twitter link
elinekking Blawin a fair auld hoolie owre by ??(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ie fae yestreen's Burns Nicht hoolie doon in Ballygellick wi the y (2015) twitter link