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The word 'swipper'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
swipperOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
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 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
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 swipper in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
it, (naebody ivver did a job swipper eneugh for Syme and Son) but on page 59

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 74 - The Warld Nixt Door, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
soom swipper an swith on sea-loch an frith
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Fine April's dance cam swipper roon, on page 11

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
ht mair birkie than Napoleon, swipper in speech and glegger tae, bu on page 6

2 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
swith cam he in, ay, an swipper he gaed on page 25

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
be at's hou Hadfield hes been swipper in gainin a hie reputation; s on page 91

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
w you soople, skeigh, gleg an swipper young anes, but for fowk o a (2020)

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