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The word 'powkit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
powkitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3144
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
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 powkit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"G'wa!" She powkit a fingir it is belly. "At's y on page 20

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r, groanin as skailed peanuts powkit inte's bare back. on page 16

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
creepit ower tae the fire an powkit the crummly cinners intae a g
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
n oor afore dinner-time. They powkit aboot amang the steens a whil
limbs o men, nerra airms that powkit aneth their wings, an a human
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
luiks. He dichtit his neb, he powkit his feathers flat, he even py
roon, till a wee gurly mowdie powkit its snoot up ooto the grun an
ing that purred an preened an powkit its fur wi its wee pink tongu
Scrat, powkit the boxie. It wis full o leav
aed ower tae the sweetie jar, powkit her paw in, an tuik a neivefu
7 matches

General Northern

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - A Wird i Yer Lug, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
A powkit ma snoot intil a puckle mair
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
likes a bonny face, eh?” He powkit Raggle in the ribs. “Follae
1 matches

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