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The word 'puckles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pucklesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2146
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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 puckles in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
cam oot o da grund wi da hail puckles staandin aboot dem - ida mon
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
airns, shiftless, thriftless, puckles o Steenhillock cottars hid be
oorie far Northies' bairns an puckles o the nearhaun cottar halflin
that fires wad be lichtit in puckles o parks roon Leddrach, ay, an
ower the years, he'd coveret puckles o shearers and skiffies fa'd
mpur in Far Malayasia, faith, puckles o his Bruce cousins war skitt
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
the thocht) takk dementia, as puckles o aulder fowk on the Age Seru
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
tit sea-ferlies aa aroon her, puckles deid and puckles slawly deein on page 119

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
ologian chiel eence addreesed puckles o letters tae me, tae try tae on page 51

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Puckles o damage nae a welcome sicht.
1 matches

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
kent or something like at an puckles aboot once more intae the bre
1 matches

Noble, Brian , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Puckles e folk takin turns te sing
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Och aye. There's puckles daein mair nor me. @JamieFair(2020)