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The word 'puffy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
puffyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
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
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 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 puffy in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
stammered, tacn aback by her puffy red cen, "shü wants you ta c on page 31

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ple doughnut roon his socket, puffy n tender-lookin, wae wee ring on page 20

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
sort ay order an his eyes ur puffy an inert. ‘Danny? Whit time
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
erub-like bairnies floatin in puffy cloods wi angel's wings, or a on page 23

1 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
t o banging gane on oot there puffy. #chopchop #bangbang(2012)