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The word 'wanker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wankerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5188
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 41 9 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 wanker in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
oceeds ! Divvy up ye mean, ya wanker !“
d chairman of the PTA. Bliddy wanker! Goad kens whit hauf-baked id
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
uld be heard softly mutterin "Wanker". Tae avoid causin another re on page 31
him, Caroline. What a fuckin wanker." on page 80
k. Ah'm no messin likes, this wanker looks like he's yin cauld awe on page 125
you've become a middle-class wanker. Fur fuck sake, yae dress lik on page 136

4 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
—Ah did think ay that, wanker, ah reach across the couch an
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
depths because ay ma sadness. Wanker, you wanker. 1 walk past two on page 3

3 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
“‘S a wanker,” Ah ay thought - bit Ah h
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
McDade sais, gien thum the “wanker” haun signal.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘He’s goat gear? Wee wanker, he better be here somewhere.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ma place as the prized fuckin wanker ay the piece whilst simultane
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Aye, a wanker’s right enough, an ah conce
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
The fuckin wanker ah’m waitin oan - Derek. .
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he men's and just called me a wanker for trying to help him up off on page 13

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
oranger than 'Bru. And making wanker gestures. https://t.co/tSQlnP(2020)

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