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The word 'moosie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
moosieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.1467
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 1406.6 40 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of moosie in Corpus

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Orkney

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Bishop's Palace, Moosie Tooer, roond room dark and wi on page 29

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Hatter wis hevan tea at id: a Moosie wis sittan between them, slee on page 64
t joost as weel say," added e Moosie, who seemed till be talkan in on page 66
"KE Moosie is sleepan again," sade e Hat on page 67
Here e Moosie shook idsel, an began singan on page 69
wis three peedie sisters," e Moosie started in a beeg hurry; "an on page 70
Also on pages 71, 72, 107, 108, 109, 111
40 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Watch yer moosie Wi the cat on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the wirm, bit it's the second moosie at gits the cheese."' on page 7

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
hie, an ye may be sure that a moosie wull like
1 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 83 - Chief wi Een Anither, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
e ti daith. An onywyse, a wee moosie like you canna ging oot, kis on page 83

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
The moosie gnawed richt through the net on page 24

1 matches

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