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The word 'jaw-'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jaw-Occurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.311
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 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 jaw- in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
jaw-bane schorit ti wun frie o its
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
This place wis mingin like a jaw-hole! Of course it wis her! Ah on page 79

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
supposedly wyce-like fowk is jaw-drappin, as cin be clearly see on page 119

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
ey watter disappears doon the jaw-hole o a bath. on page 4

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'Mammie syndes them doon the jaw-box,' Geordie said. on page 6
ork and cowped it aw doon the jaw-box. He then filled the bottle on page 36
bocht were lined up near the jaw-box. on page 79

3 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
die, syver, gote/yett, stank, jaw-hole, smeu hole: an e-freaking(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
me so much, no just ma first jaw-dropping moment seeing the Dal (2022) twitter link

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