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The word 'oxsters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oxstersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.483
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
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 170.6 6 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of oxsters in Corpus

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
u the dub an mire, up tae wir oxsters in ignorance.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
at dailygaun clarted tae his oxsters in Antrim clabber; on page 50

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
in the #glaur: I'm up tae my oxsters in #clabber! #UlsterScots (2014) twitter link
is Oxi"? Twitter's up tae its oxsters in Oxi the day. (2015) twitter link
I hae been up tae my oxsters wi aa this Twitterin cairry o (2014) twitter link
lsterScots: maggin up tae its oxsters in thon slabbery, clabbery sh (2014) twitter link
k sure the belt's up tae your oxsters an you hae tartan socks oan. (2015) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.