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The word 'monstrous'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
monstrousOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3119
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
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 monstrous in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
"the Rokeby Venus [wi a ] ...monstrous great plook on her arse" an w
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
t wis some sicht tae see this monstrous Heidie danglin the wee laddie on page 144
said, 'is how feart fae this monstrous auntie ah wis, and how she ow on page 193

2 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Siddenly, a monstrous luckin mid-field player cross
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
the green licht swirlt an the monstrous thingie disappeared in a puff on page 66

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
y as though the wheels o some monstrous gigantic machine were birlin on page 71
dently, the machine let oot a monstrous awmichty boak, and at the sam on page 105

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
A fear sae monstrous lowers, sweir horror's thrust on page 30

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
he wis esponsible, forby, fur monstrous state-uphaudit crimes o indes on page 4

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
hae thocht she had a kind o monstrous, soor luve o
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
the palace. Stories aboot the monstrous size o his horns, an his muck
1 matches

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