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The word 'shuggar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shuggarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shuggar in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wae shuggar, jam and marge on page 71

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Shuggar, floor, marg, cut intae dice on page 116

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
nipsiccar - an - an barley-shuggar an da laek at maks bairns swe on page 89
"A'm baken ower broon, lat me shuggar me head." on page 105

2 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
shuggar an mulk? A wis tellin ye aboo
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
ients, pittin it in efter the shuggar meltit wis left oot bi mistak
1 matches

General Ulster

Robinson, Philip , (Facebook 2021) Ulster, prose
an green dibble-ennit tin wi shuggar in tha yin en an tay leafs in
1 matches

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