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The word 'thingie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thingieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.796
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
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)
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 thingie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an waarm watter; an electric thingie fir dirlin aa yer fat awa; an on page 82

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ged luggie. “Oh ye peer wee thingie!” It looked like somebody
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
It's sic a nice thingie on page 77

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
es in his richts tae be a wee thingie fasht wi the Queen, for he we on page 17
sslie follain a muckle skyrie thingie, at lyeukit files like a dall on page 71

3 matches

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
o Ah gie it thocht thur's ane thingie. on page 80

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
licht swirlt an the monstrous thingie disappeared in a puff o smoke on page 66

1 matches

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