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The word 'whigmaleeries'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whigmaleeriesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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) 256.1 5 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whigmaleeries in Corpus

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General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
whigmaleeries. on page 9

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ildin and inventin aw kinds o whigmaleeries, sae her heid wis aye booncin on page 3
in her heid jist in case thon whigmaleeries gied her ony ideas for some i on page 157

2 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
ar's poems in Scots, he cried Whigmaleeries. @WeeMowdie @billykayscot(2019)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Sic ferlies an whigmaleeries on page 18
Sic whigmaleeries gar me scunner, on page 36
Daft caleery, birled aboot by whigmaleeries on page 49
IV. MacCassey's Whigmaleeries on page 52

5 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
sterScots letterheids, an sic whigmaleeries, ony time the notion taks ye! (2015) twitter link
I dinnae get her up aboot sic whigmaleeries! (2015) twitter link
as yersel ken mair aboot sic whigmaleeries nor the likes o The Gellick. (2014) twitter link