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The word 'loofs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loofsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of loofs in Corpus

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General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
e lid aff wi yin o his muckle loofs, and I kent that I had tae da on page 16

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
one wi lowpin, he dichted his loofs on his chist, and said, "'Whi on page 55
er the brig, haudin it in his loofs. on page 92
Pooh scansed his twa loofs. He kent that yin o them wis on page 110
saxty-somethin trees, and his loofs faulded afore him, said 'Oh! on page 164

4 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A wrocht til ma loofs were blistered sair, on page 20

1 matches

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