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The word 'nosey'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
noseyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3146
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 nosey in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
want tae ken dat? Shü's no a nosey gossipy kind a lass." on page 38

1 matches

Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
So nosey folk couldna their eyesight t
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
10 plus 1 guys will b havin a nosey as we speak n frantically pho (2020) twitter link
ts funny cos theres sum right nosey feckers liking there ain comm (2020) twitter link
ot so lol - ad luv tae hae a nosey whit ee buy - it says alot a (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e stair come doon tae dae her nosey an she said tae me, Awww yir on page 35
harlene, ah said, Don't be sa nosey. Ah wis only askin, she said, on page 58
she wis jist daein it tae be nosey tae see if he'd say anythin t on page 127
Nosey but nice on page 146
l wis; when ah went in aw the nosey folk lik Laura McNish an Nico on page 152
Also on pages 169
6 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
wer their heids. She wis awfy nosey tae ken whit it wis aa aboot, on page 44

2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
no tae. Some gawkers would be nosey enough tae go jist tae see hu on page 52

1 matches

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