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The word 'smashed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
smashedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83526
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 41 9 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of smashed in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
me doars hammered, me screens smashed? He cam fae nopiece, an back on page 57

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
of coorse he said: 'I smashed hid - on page 23

1 matches

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
e da 'Meerie Meggie', and had smashed. Athin seconds John wis
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
he grun, flicht cars lay like smashed licht bulbs. Skyscrapers stud
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ed, an dunted an thrashed, an smashed the boatie’s hull, till Bir
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Aat quine fa smashed the pie record: well dane, bi(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
they’d a chunce ti use it. Smashed it tae smithereens. Sae that
1 matches

General Northern

Christie, Hilary Lallans 78 - Ma Freens in Chains, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, poetry
Smashed, crumled, stramped, on page 74

1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
@GayleStephen2 After its been smashed in that many times, no option(2020)

@cligeey tweeted
compressor lying here arrived smashed up oil rinnin oot o box waiti(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
icht, pub for me. Awa tae get smashed(2016)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
The suit nods. Smashed, he might be, but he's no dru on page 1

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
number? Jesus, ah musta been smashed that day. So, what kin ah dae on page 145
nae be drawn awey fae Craig's smashed up puss. They've done a right on page 180

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
whaur repossessed hooses were smashed into kinnlin inside afore the
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
e next row, in the chest then smashed Young Hector’s drum an’ g
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s buits aff, fund his Muse an smashed it tae smithereens.
the auld wumman sadly. “Aal smashed. Ah did manage tae save this
2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
f a dish ir a kettle hid been smashed intae pieces. on page 57

2 matches

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
h see it, lyin oan the flair, smashed an in pieces; the picture ah on page 8

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
The rain is comin in the smashed windaes wae the howlin wind. on page 5
uckin Bruce Lee, furgot you'd smashed aw the Toi wans yirsel!' A sa on page 10
is fucked. That elder boy hud smashed him cos he hud a face yi kin on page 20
'It's no ma maw's fault A smashed them. on page 54

4 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
ise it made man, The pan pure smashed, Hink he died straight away. on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
h see it, lyin oan the flair, smashed an in pieces; the picture ah
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Augustus Gowp will no get smashed, on page 90

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
gettin up tae aw sorts. They smashed glass bottles doon the burn n on page 49

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
ither sculpture were brak and smashed.
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
ly was….six broken teeth, a smashed finger, bruised all over from
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
long ago an aa the rules wis smashed.

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
e cardiac arrest, his face is smashed to the pieces after fallin fo(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
So he smashed the oul village tae clabbers
1 matches

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