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The word 'limmer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
limmerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71916
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 limmer in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
. Dey kent dat dis wife wis a limmer an yit Jesus didna hinder her on page 111

2 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
"Du peerie limmer," sed Duiweel, "Whit da Muckl on page 35

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n at's fit she did. The leein limmer, the treacherous, connivin - on page 59

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2013) Doric - Buckie
am a feel gipe or a bit of a limmer it's es contraption thit winn

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
r, the stoker. 'She's a richt limmer. Some say she's doolally, but on page 40

1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
in a reid face Peggy, ye auld limmer!!
1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
e: Haud yeir tung, ye skirlin limmer! Bring Dobbin ti me straucht, on page 48

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
, Jeanie Hugh, she's a forrit limmer her, she roared tae him, on page 18

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
He wes a rale dentie wie limmer.
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'He's a linkie limmer! Last week he sellt me a seco on page 151

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
Bonnie Chairlie. Gin the'r a limmer ti haun nou, o coorse, it mau on page 141

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 83 - Phantasmagoria, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Lik a demon limmer that sclims on page 71

1 matches

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
maks her a queen an Haman the limmer, like Deacon Brodie, is hangi on page ix

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
as weel as she'd been a young limmer. Her naitural guid health, th on page 71

1 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
trae. But she wis juist a bit limmer - young, innocent, walkin oo on page 17

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
), keek, kirk, laird and lug, limmer, lintie, misca, midden, nyaff
1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
t acquent wi thon gallus ying limmer o the Italian Duecento, Cecco
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Frae thieves tae limmer killers on page 41

1 matches

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