A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'oaf'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oafOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.7518
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 50.1 8 2
GLA - Glasgow 145.7 32 1
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 oaf 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
any of the things I'm selling oaf actually belonged to my Grand on page 73

1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Philomena and Alcohol, (youtube.com 2010) Doric, poetry
Oaf doon tae the shoppie
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ames. Ma mobile starts ringin oaf the hook at aboot half seven on page 16
his cunt wants a hunner grand oaf me. This boay dressed in a tu on page 17
ae the buildin tae throw him oaf and then halled him back up f on page 18
ngs n that hard graft kin pey oaf someday. Ah mean that, nae sh on page 23
h didnae. He jist shrugged it oaf: "It'll be soond. Ah'll lit h on page 32

6 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Bak Tae Schuil, (Scots Hoose 2015) Central, weans
Up tae the landin an a tak oaf ma coat
1 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Shoapaholic, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
its ae mine a cannae tak them oaf
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
urs A couldnae get the sannie oaf ‘ur.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
hit wis happenin, he had taen oaf his apron and hat, pit the kn on page 9

1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
lly taking it in. Ah’v been oaf the skag a couple weeks now a
—Go jerk yeself oaf, ye doss cunt! he sais, as if
ma entire stomach wi jist yin oaf ‘em, an he keeps movin ‘e
ays jist right tae th’ jerk oaf. Ah cannae imagine him giein
d to let him finish himsel’ oaf in his jeans like he did wiâ€
7 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
a soon hid the eake feeneesht oaf anaw. on page 15
bly. Some ae the birds hurrit oaf straight away: wan auld Magpi on page 31
arn wae, they'd take the roof oaf." Efter a meenit on page 39
nce tae be offski: so she set oaf at wance, an ran till she wis on page 42
hook itsel. Then it goat doon oaf the mushroom, an crawlt away on page 50
Also on pages 59, 60, 64, 73, 74, 79, 80, 82, 84, 86, 90, 91, 95, 109, 112, 120, 122
32 matches

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