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The word 'muppet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
muppetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
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 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 muppet in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
ppet or marionette or flippin muppet on page 88

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ment was in response tae some muppet of your parish claiming this (2020) twitter link

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
Nat, but I'm nae haeing that muppet telling us fit tae dee. He ca (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. Judgin him fur the complete muppet he is. on page 48
yursel this yin. How did that muppet Craig afford this?" on page 173

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
by the eos but hey ho its the muppet show lol (2020) twitter link
voted macaskill in - mans a muppet - a rest ma case lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ae yi hink your talkin tae ya muppet. You ya skinny freak, ah said on page 136
aren stood there noddin lik a muppet: she said they wur jist staun on page 169

2 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
figures ur lies then, aye(?) Muppet. ??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@allisonpearson Muppet.(2020)