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The word 'whigmaleerie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whigmaleerieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8167
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whigmaleerie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Whigmaleerie. Whigmaleerie wis a kite, a muckle fite pap
skirlie, aff he wad gyang wi Whigmaleerie
cud chrnm tae the clouds like Whigmaleerie, insteid o bein a wee yalla r
Sabbath, as Rosy glowered at Whigmaleerie furlin an fleein up aside a
h. Fee I wish I cud flee like Whigmaleerie.”
8 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
history keeps its secrets - whigmaleerie, cantrips an teuchats, forby. on page 57

1 matches

(South) East Central

Matthews, Andrew Lallans 104 - Skiddlie Thochts, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
random selected', juist a bit whigmaleerie tae fill ae weet efternuin, s on page 81

1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
oot that Scottish Renaissance whigmaleerie that howpt tae mak Scots the
1 matches

General Central

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
but noo thay maun hae evry whigmaleerie,
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
a whigmaleerie of peerie wings, on page 10

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Breenge, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central, poetry
a whigmaleerie of peerie wings,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Tha pasts a dour oul whigmaleerie; on page 27

1 matches

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