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The word 'seeck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seeckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42811
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 13.1 4 1
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 17.8 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 181.7 10 1

Occurrences of seeck in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
I need da pell, A’m feelin seeck…” oobed Uggledlugs leanin
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ned the shutters. Lizzie felt seeck tae her guts fin she saw the
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
chtit at this. Forbyes he wiz seeck tae daith o bleachin fowk at
ae the British because he wiz seeck o war fin he’d spotted Doug
In the hinner eyn Douglas got seeck o the cairry on and returned
3 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
thare wur mair veesitors nar seeck fowk. A jist settlet masel do
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Thon lass, wi nae seeck-time, whit did she net? on page 218

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Thon lass, wi nae seeck-time, whit did she net? - on page 13
Neds! Wha leapt frae last seeck-beds, on page 33
We sheltert ahint the usual seeck jokes. on page 51

3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
said gently; "they'd hiv been seeck." on page 72

2 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Seeck an deleerit. on page 16

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
iallin the firm's nummer wi a seeck-like feelin in his wame. Auld on page 65

2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
the BBC naist week; we are a seeck o him noo. Een gin we werena (2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Yarns 3 - Brae / Sheugh / Cannae / Piece, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, poetry
Mither li’in seeck ian bed
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
A'm as seeck as a poisoned pup. on page 19

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Jesus maks aa kines o seeck fowk bettèr on page 4
Monie seeck fowk cured on page 9

10 matches

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