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The word 'jinny'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
jinnyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.3314
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 88.3 27 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
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of jinny in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
yer fingir oot, Sandy," said Jinny, "or else Puffin Billy' ll bi on page 33
"Och! Nivver myn im," said Jinny, clappin the back o'is han. " on page 34
dy," Eileen gied a reed-faced Jinny a condescendin leuk, "an Bill on page 35
pooerfu hoof in the shins fae Jinny. on page 36
n, leukin it Sandy an syne it Jinny. "Billy's thinkin o pittin tw on page 37

24 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
tale is aa aboot a lady caaed Jinny an her 'best freen', Mac, a b on page 17
"Bit ye'll hiv te lut im go, Jinny. It's nae fair." on page 18

3 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
oon here gettin on like a big Jinny-Ann'. on page 23

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
an Gary say that ah'm a right Jinny if ah play wi girls.’
‘Well dinnae be such a Jinny,’ saed Gary.
2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
my heid roon aa thon English jinny-spake ava... http://t.co/dCHL (2014) twitter link