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The word 'bloke'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blokeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12718
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 35.5 8 5
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 bloke in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Ah'm the bloke on the owld grey Fergie, in t on page 83

2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
unt. "Na, na," says she, "yon bloke wis turned tae steen lang ago on page 35

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
"It's fit a brainy bloke like yersel wid caa a misnome on page 88

1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Let me enlichten ye aboot the bloke in the coffin. Ee caz imsel, on page 40

2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
straint nae tae react tae the bloke wittering mince that this is (2022) twitter link
? I could see Broon telling a bloke tae get tae fuck and nae pit (2021) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
re was a bit of a crash. Some bloke seems to have jist his arm.(2012)
ted burst radiator at 1.09am. Bloke oot n temp repaired it by 2am(2011)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
ng wi traivlin' licht. Proper bloke.(2019)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
is son Brian nae here?' Other bloke goes. 'Well he works affa awk (2023) twitter link

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
s day auld stubble. 'Ah ken a bloke who kens a bloke wi scaffoldi on page 7

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
He's a couthy bloke wi a muckle mooth,
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
top as u ken guys - crackin bloke (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Robb, Fraser Lallans 61 - Jimmy Bond, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, weans
Was the bloke Jim cried Odd Job. on page 9

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
sound-proofing foam, and tech bloke fir one of they websites that
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
s daein, even though ah’m a bloke. We’ve fooled aroond before
1 matches

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
, he looked a really holy wee bloke. In fact whin ma daddy an Lar on page 44

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
it’s obvious whit mob the NL bloke that pit this oot wants ??tae(2020)
od ?? commentary and awe. Tap bloke ??(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
ssies’s pissed aff. The auld bloke thinks, “At ma age, Ah’ve n(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah cannae staund bloke's like Daniel. Treatin Nicky (2020)
on Netflix, an thinkin, "that bloke soonds like Raj fae The Big B(2020)
s inside the TubeTube(!) This bloke's a tube! ?? https://t.co/UPR(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@DrewLawDesign As Deaf bloke, a feel 10 isnae enough! Shou(2020)