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The word 'hoosies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoosiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
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)
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 hoosies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hoosies fir the bairns. He meeved ama on page 94

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
rth Hoosie, they biggit their hoosies an dens frae fir branches inn
wly creepin roon the rubbit's hoosies, blockin aff ilkie hole wi a
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
pictur hoosies. Aince, Teenie hid traivelled
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fin the picter hoosies opens again, foo are the nois(2020)

Aberdeen

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
He lookit up abeen the wee hoosies couriet aneth the cliff waa,
1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
cousin Jimmy an her wid play hoosies in it. Her Grunny an her shar on page 16

1 matches

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ontered Donald. Suddenly, the hoosies began tae get mair and mair m on page 76

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ade Teenie. In the twa middle hoosies bade
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
In the real life "playin hoosies" matinee on page 45

1 matches

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