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The word 'peerier'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peerierOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1175
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 98.8 17 5
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
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 peerier in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
if shö wis gyaain ta get ony peerier: shö felt kinda nervees aboo on page 13
key; an if hit maks me growe peerier, A'll be able ta creep anunde on page 14
t twa fit high noo, aye comin peerier, an at a braa speed tö: shö on page 20
ou wirna aye growin bigger an peerier, an bein oardered aroond bi m on page 35
am noo, hit'll surely mak me peerier, I wid tink." on page 40
Also on pages 51, 54
8 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
A røt canna be cut up intae peerier units. Examples o røts wid b on page 38
-ik (maks peerier entities): boolik 'pimple' (b on page 42
-(e)r: peerier 'small'; roonder 'rounder' on page 44
in spokken aboot. In Shaetlan peerier adjectives is wint tae shaa c on page 51

6 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
miffed when I realised it wis peerier dan a great white in a tank l (2020) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Autumn colours on a peerier scale https://t.co/HBMyhl95q7(2020)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
na moan aboot wantin dem made peerier - joost dunna gie dem tae ba (2018) twitter link

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