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The word 'mowdie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mowdieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1279
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 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 mowdie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
dles, or the skin o a stinkin mowdie, fur a shelt hates yon abeen
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
s time roon, till a wee gurly mowdie powkit its snoot up ooto the
e grun an said in a wee gurly mowdie’s screich, “Be quaet Vict
Mollochy Mowdie, the gang tae his birthday pa
ll fair enjoy yersel Mollachy Mowdie
4 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
t newsin awa tae Dad, his wee mowdie traps hingin owre the haunleb
a braw weskit it wis, made wi mowdie skins. In ae pocket he keepit
t the king fa stummelt owre a mowdie hillock and dee’d. This hap
e lyin at ma feet but an auld mowdie trap, twistit and roustie, bu
t aboot it – it wis an auld mowdie trap.
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
“Ay, Mowdie!” sayed the Wattir Mouss.
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
door an feet thit wad fletten mowdie-hills, Archie wis a guid heid on page 21

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
yince ower the saft sile o a mowdie-hill. A wee curn o stirks mau on page 22

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Tae Mr Ratton, Mr Mowdie - on page 159

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
howkin beasts. That's me and Mowdie and Mappie Rabbit and aw oor on page 447
dy tae share it - yersel and Mowdie and Mappie and Whitterick and on page 48
Mowdie and Mrs Mowdie and fower Wee Mowdies. on page 75

4 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
Aye kent on oor fairm as the Mowdie Man(2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
oot aboot 'The Tale o the wee Mowdie': https://t.co/BmSfcfmNGC #Sc (2019) twitter link
Mowdie an 'The Tale o the wee Mowdie', an @ScotsScriever bletherin (2019) twitter link
ung yins: 'The Tale o the Wee Mowdie that wantit tae ken wha keech (2018) twitter link
a dug... 'The Tale o the Wee Mowdie' is a licht-hartit buik that (2017) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hit ee ir ae expert it settin mowdie traps.” Geordie askit the
wi Geordie is hei checkit his mowdie traps.
r in eet wis Geordie’s deed mowdie. Whan Geordie
s telling the tale aboot this mowdie, hei sayed thit hei hed been
4 matches

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