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The word 'ooft'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ooftOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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 ooft in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
and @dunnjons @SwarovskiOptik Ooft! Yons a guid Shaetland bird! (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Ooft, didnae huv you doon as the v on page 14

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Ooft, man, wouldnae mess wae they on page 9

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
mah name?' an he'd be like, 'Ooft, ye hearin voices, pal? 'That on page 75

1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ooft…wid yi look at that,’ he
1 matches

General Central

@Cobradile94 tweeted
@ScotsScriever Ooft! Thay went aw oot wi this!(2019)
Ooft, thae reflexes! https://t.co/(2020)

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
@doug_johnstone Ooft. Nice yin, skip.(2019)
Readin Knockemstiff. Jist... ooft.(2018)