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The word 'looker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lookerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
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 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 looker in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
tle. Same turn oan if ye're a looker. Like me. Or an ugly cunt. Yo on page 1

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
mc1066 jist like eersel als a looker - as a said its guid tae b p (2021) twitter link
andsum chap like u - still a looker tae lol x (2020) twitter link
ee jealous likes - laddies a looker lol (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
in a tracky. She wis never a looker but yi would never say it tae on page 23

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Aw aye, Trish. He’s a looker awright.’ Mary sais.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - The Scaffie Man’s Tale, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ence, ken whit Ah mean? But a looker aw the same. on page 112

1 matches

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