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The word 'swack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
swackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92315
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of swack in Corpus

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Orkney

Hershaw, William Seivin Verses for GMB, (Scottish Poetry Library 2015) Orkney, poetry
whaur aa is swack and sure.
1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
fae swack to stink. Like I ken this is on page 20

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"A'm aye keepit soople an swack on page 48

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
an swack dey wir an lichtsome. on page 59

1 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
d, an he coled. A fine strong swack young fellow. Even da Mistres
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
e jist Nava. Ten year auld, a swack, broon, clivver wee quinie, s
an – fairly that! Brian hid swack hauns, fiddler's hauns. He di
t the croon o her wame in his swack, fite, fiddler's fingers.
nderson wis near echty, still swack, bit nut-broon an wrinkled li
4 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
#dashodoric challenge day 5. SWACK as in 'she's nae as swack as (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
e railins. A doot A'm nae sae swack as A was.' on page 89

2 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
that gied ye corns. Na, he's swack eneuch eyvnoo, for aa that he on page 8

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
n wi the trark, An nae azacly swack!" on page 54
'glackie' means 'glitterie an swack'. Like a pockmanty, ye ken, t on page 84

2 matches

(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
steek it. He wis that gleg an swack, he haed stertit on the breek
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
tellt tae jeidge the ettlins swack-like and fairly. Sae I maun d on page 7

1 matches

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ion o the ballant forward gey swack-like. Mairower, like the titl on page 64

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
ang, the mistress' airm plied swack, on page 23
On bearins swack an snod, on page 56

2 matches

DaibhidC Moa an the tynt sun, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
The baw wis wairm an swack. Moa haudit on, terrifee'd, a
1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
oot o leid an kittles gleg an swack thocht. Forbye, it fordèrs f on page 9

1 matches

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