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The word 'whack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81610
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 whack in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Anither good whack and I peered through the gloo on page 72

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ma ither site ah hiv upgraded Whack Haggis game sae it can noo be(2015)
Ah scored sivventy on the Whack a Haggis game aat https://t.c(2018)
ount. He’s gyan tae gie me a whack o sivven thoosand poun if ah (2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
Then whack! on page 34

1 matches

General Northern

Strachan, Shane Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
Hear the repeated whack o darts on page 19

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
at", an gave it a richt hardy whack. He disappeared intae a clood
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
a wee gamie o' 'whackshite'! 'WHACK........shite!'(2016)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
itbaw in the ffa cup - canna whack it (2021) twitter link
hts at port seton - ee canna whack it lol (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
spects ah've gave it the full whack as faur as the local colour a on page vii

1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'Ah, ye cannae whack it,' said Tam, savourin a big on page 50

1 matches

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
for a mair forceful an louder whack. Mr. MacNeil also follaed the on page 42

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
e whit that lot done tae Us a whack of years ago ??. ????????. ??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ah'll whack an Ah'll whummle an belt an A on page 66
k wi me an some hae had their whack o me, an aa wad hae their tak on page 77

2 matches

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