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The word 'puddocks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
puddocksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82615
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 102.5 2 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of puddocks in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
The puddocks ir gwickan watter-flees. on page 124

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
The French dine on puddocks - they're nae fashious fowk on page 15

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
, she kent that. They blew up puddocks wi a straa till they burst. T
tae shelts like they war tae puddocks, or rubbits, or daddylanglegs
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
hoose wi a guff o deid puddocks, fooshty bats, an rattens tae
ns aroon. Rubbits, bummers an puddocks aa likit Rory, forby he luiki
2 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
t the Plagues o Egypt: Bleed. Puddocks. Lice. Flees. Summin that soo
1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
dugs ran oot o the widds. The puddocks aw stertit lowpin up and doon on page 28

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Hee-Haw The Puddocks O! on page 20

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
ae the reeds and see whit the puddocks are sayin. on page 2
. Lang Sandy wisna sayin. The puddocks' mooths were steekit. The tro on page 3
The puddocks were pappin and plowtin like on page 4

6 matches

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
eds, and in simmer thoosans o puddocks, that thick on the grund ye c on page 17

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 85 - What Kind Of Scots?, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
gied us fables wi craws an puddocks; on page 9

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
d men no kennin a thing aboot puddocks, or geese, or brammles, or co on page 99

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
the Greek o Aristophanes, The Puddocks and The Burdies, first perfor
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
wk like parritch, ithers like puddocks!" https://t.co/PZ7lRpBcTM(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Puddocks, Slaters, Jennies. on page 72

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Staks, sprootin lake puddocks frae oot on page 38

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
We hae jist seen tha puddocks in oor wee pond theday, sae S on page 29

1 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
n gettin by thaimsels, an tha puddocks wud ’a deeved ye in tha boa
1 matches

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