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The word 'thrashin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thrashinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52512
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 62.1 14 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of thrashin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
aneth's - the black watters, thrashin an crashin in the dark depths on page 21

1 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
an she wid rather hae hin the thrashin than ate them. on page 16

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
THE THRASHIN MULL
a tape here it's a'a aboot a thrashin mull. Wid you like tae
the tape came tae the thrashin mull Jonsar Eck wis fer pleas
wis seein. A thrashin mull wis a machine that separ
the ruck on tae thrashin mull. Yon shaves were set upo
11 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
is painful kind o whinin an a thrashin in the undergrowth. A few o u
1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
and kent ye was gan tae get a thrashin fan ye got hame .
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
oy's een wur wild. He stopped thrashin. . on page 1

2 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
breith, sin the ferm haed nae thrashin machine — but the pigs wi t
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
in, an she wis in the midst o thrashin wings an a snakin hause. She
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
scaudin, thrashin ma wey on page 81

1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
here.’ ‘But a maun pey ma thrashin powl some mense. Gie’s a bi
de gey rich an worshipped his thrashin powl as a god. He wis the fir
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
of a thrashin with a blackthorn boggie. on page 36

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
han, an he wull redd up hïs thrashin-flure, getherin hïs wheat ï on page 3
hïs hans, he'll redd up tha thrashin-flure, an pit tha wheat ïn h on page 74

2 matches

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