A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'nosed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nosedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6127
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 2
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 nosed 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.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
as he carefully an nervously nosed his wye troo da nairroo stree on page 57

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n the sweet breath o the pink nosed coos and the sharp stink o sh on page 88

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rang an the breath o the pink-nosed beasts fullin his nose as she on page 91

1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
t haed made Ma ask the toffee nosed git for onywey? Then she mind on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
he's oot there teachin snotty nosed brats? Cos lit me tell yae, a on page 60
identity. But then that hard nosed bitch Thatcher came along wae on page 86
ae their ain than some toffee nosed bastard sittin behind a desk. on page 143

3 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
nosed aneath the duvet on page 46

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ugh!" said th Dormoose kipeet-nosed. Ho'e'er, fair dows, hei agre on page 73

1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
eing part of em being a broom-nosed to those lizard cabals...(2020)
a comment against that toffee-nosed snob with a muckle silver spo(2020)
rFacts No wonder ye are broon-nosed kowtower... (2020) twitter link

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