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The word 'shrug'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shrugOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21712
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 shrug in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
lug Cwid only raise a gallic shrug An spikkin, weel, that green on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
"Da ken." Ah shrug ma shooders. on page 94

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
Ye shrug and return tae wydin through
1 matches

(South) East Central

Chalmers, Aimee Lallans 59 - Joukene Poukerie, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
for a meenit, mind. Ye gied a shrug, made a pootie moo, held yer
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Lawlords gie an apathetic shrug, on page 145

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
used tae relax back oot o the shrug an she begoud tae trummle.
e gied Beatrice an apologetic shrug an wis awa.
Beatrice gied a wee shrug, which Derriakin cud interpre
3 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
tries tae calm me doon but ah shrug him aff, ah need tae teach th on page 7

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
sick feelin in ma stomach but shrug it aff. There wis always some on page 30
less. Don't you agree?' We aw shrug n try tae look interested. 'H on page 58

2 matches

General Central

Aitchison, Craig nobody remembers the birdman - Fishin the Mairch, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
lips, boonds an mairches tae shrug aff. on page 1

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ot o sicht, the speakers wull shrug their shooders an no bather a
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
erdeen an Paisely is met wi a shrug o the shooders an, “Aye, th
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ae excuse the criminals, or a shrug o the shooders an, “Weill,
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
dream, then wae a wink and a shrug o the shooder tae the van oer on page 80

1 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
The three sons shrug their shoulders on page 42

1 matches

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