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Use in varieties of Scots

puffy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 0 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences53 0 0 1 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of puffy in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ple doughnut roon his socket, puffy n tender-lookin, wae wee ring on page 20

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
nd hur mammy's wearin a lang, puffy, purple coat and welly boots. on page 59

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
sort ay order an his eyes ur puffy an inert. ‘Danny? Whit time
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
stammered, tacn aback by her puffy red cen, "shü wants you ta c on page 31

1 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
t o banging gane on oot there puffy. #chopchop #bangbang(2012) search twitter