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The word 'stievely'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stievelyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4134
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 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31.3 5 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stievely in Corpus

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
d as a mawk. Miss Honey stood stievely afor, the Heidie. For wanst s on page 80
the flimmer wumman, staundin stievely in the porch. 'Richt then,' h on page 88
snipped. And noo, grippin him stievely by the twa lugs, she heezed h on page 146
Miss Honey kept lookin stievely at Matilda through her steel- on page 166

5 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Ay,” sayed Hsien stievely.
e, an Raggle’s vyce, cursin stievely.
“No,” she sayed stievely. “He is not some kind of cr
couple o days,” she sayed stievely as she stuid up tae lea thaim
urnt his back on her an sayed stievely, “Ah’m no takin a lassie
5 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 85 - Roads, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
The same ane ye'd aye stievely mairched ahint. on page 10

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'Naw,' said Wee Grumphie stievely. "The tther side o the widd.' on page 15
When he cam back he said stievely: on page 23

2 matches

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