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The word 'shuk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shukOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.7294
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 105.4 17 1
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) 313.8 10 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of shuk in Corpus

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
uld man raised his eebroos an shuk his heid, no able for tae fra
She smilet, an shuk her heid. But it wis tactfu o
e seat in front. The vertical shuk an swung aboot. Aside her, Bi
, admirin his effeeciency. He shuk her haun whan he left an saye
e is Tibetan,” he sayed. He shuk the auld man’s haun. “It
17 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ease dae!" But the Moose jest shuk its heid impatiently an waakt on page 31
omin tae luk fur hir, an shae shuk tae shae shuk the hoose, furg on page 36
youth," said the sage, es hae shuk haes grey locks, on page 47
an yawned yinst or twice, an shuk itsel. Thin it got doon aff t on page 50
The Dorrmoose shuk its heid impatiently an said on page 70
Also on pages 71, 72, 112, 122
10 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Me Da jaist shuk his heid an said "A said take on page 10

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
verie stars o haiven wull be shuk oot o kïlter. 27An then aabo on page 106

1 matches

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