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The word 'twat'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twatOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 2
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 twat in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
tty99 An advisor an unelected twat nae richt(2020)
@gordonsimpson69 Ken a twat min(2020)

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
that yir a full-on twat on page 46

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
fucking barmy ye incredulous twat’, Evans chuckled back again
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
three, but wan's a stick, ye twat. on page 87

1 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
r the first time in history a Twat is coming to Twatt. https://t(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
e huv a vid clip as my pinned twat (I only just changed yistirda (2022) twitter link
ah. Jist replied tae yer last twat then saw this ?? (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
r173 E rinnin the nite ginger twat?(2012)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
fae a kitchen sink?! Totally twat fuds!(2020)
gusMacNeilSNP Why that blonde twat walked aff when Ian Blackford(2020)