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The word 'traipsed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
traipsedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71912
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 5
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)

Occurrences of traipsed in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ppit oot o da howe an da boys traipsed ahint her. Muttontief wis da
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Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
esit. Da pressure wis on as I traipsed oot ower tae da Toll Clock an
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Traipsed richt intae the Lion's den. on page 26

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
r ye," annunced Ma, as Jeanie traipsed intae the hoose. She wis soak on page 1

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
he previous nicht when it had traipsed owre close tae whaur he wis t
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Munchkins faur ahint, Dorothy traipsed for miles alang the Yella Bri
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
flecked wi’ confetti As we traipsed aboot the Serengeti Back then
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Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
That wis that. Cunt traipsed away. The world disnae know h on page 2

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ainfu as faither an the weans traipsed doon on page 23

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General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ae form or anither, aftwhiles traipsed ower the door wi't. Here, ath on page 15

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Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
Efter we had traipsed alang in seelence a guid whil on page 77

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
Violet, Klaus and Sunny traipsed oot tae the front door and ha on page 35
ny ahint in the kitchen, they traipsed intae the dinin room, Klaus c on page 51
e, they rowstit theirsels and traipsed back through the kitchen, no on page 52
else. The Baudelaire orphans traipsed back tae Coont Olaf's bit and on page 68
. Aw day, the twa siblins had traipsed aroond the hoose, daein the j on page 113

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Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
indaes an gie us a wave as we traipsed back an forrit tae the scuil;
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@rattlecans tweeted
As she traipsed about, fingering her rosary b (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
fferent lens settins, anen we traipsed aff again, walkin fur miles a
1 matches

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