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The word 'trimmlin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trimmlinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33111
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 46.5 8 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 106.8 10 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 196.7 3 1
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of trimmlin in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
nae glansin ee, nae trimmlin haand, on page 14

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
da watter, an he seemed ta be trimmlin aa ower wi da gluff at shö w on page 22
Alice) an he said in a peerie trimmlin voice, "Lat wis juist mak da on page 24
"Gadge!" said da Lory, trimmlin as he spak. on page 26
airns wi a voice at wis juist trimmlin, "Come you, bairns! Hit's tim on page 32
jury, an his voice wis low an trimmlin. on page 119

5 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
clos trimmlin, an his black shön fornenst on page 100

1 matches

Sandison, Iris Da Tree Peerie Grice, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, weans
So da twaa o dem sat trimmlin inside da widden hoose. Afore
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
shaif, wytin tae be sheared, trimmlin in the licht September win. M
nur a bruise tae be seen. Wi trimmlin hauns she liftit the dry leav
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
er sivintie nur fortie an aye trimmlin fur wint o a fix.
ahin the twa pearls o watter trimmlin at the lip o her lashes, Neil
2 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
haim!" it hechl't, lowtin its trimmlin heid ower tae Aijlice, "or th on page 27

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
. Tho he wesna aye swattin an trimmlin wi fivver, he wes fell
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
lessis aw roun, an gar aw the trimmlin companie leisten til hiz stor on page 5

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
eed!" cried the Mous, wha wis trimmlin richt doun tae the tip o its on page 22
ocht), an it said in a laich, trimmlin vyee, "We'll gang tae the sho on page 23
!" An a Canary cried oot in a trimmlin vyce tae its weans, "Come awa on page 31
, His vyce taks a tumorous an trimmlin wee soun." on page 44

6 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
m a clatter at the door, an a trimmlin vyce cried oot 'Isabel, Isabe on page 44
Trimmlin wi fear an excitement, he sca on page 51
Hauns an legs trimmlin wi excitement, he cuid hear t on page 59
thochts, and spake in a waik, trimmlin vyce that grew in strength in on page 60

4 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
his wee roun kyte shak lik a trimmlin-tam.
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
e wrang, an shae went on in a trimmlin voice: on page 105

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Quick trimmlin shedda, climmin on page 20

1 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
€™ roon the worl. Troots hung trimmlin in watter as clear as gless,
an, tae drap fierce-eed amang trimmlin German soajers; or twa drooki
2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
©r, the' wur hairtscarred, an trimmlin wi fear the' caad oot, "It's on page 9

1 matches

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