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The word 'bluster'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blusterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3109
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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) 58.1 1 1
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 bluster in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I listened tae aal his bluster and his threats tae end me li on page 22

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
-ster: bluster 'rough, mossy peat' (blue + - on page 42

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
plistic, reactionary guff and bluster. Gyads min (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Wi' his feckless blawhard bluster. on page 28

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
's brocht her back in sicht a bluster?" on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ot picking up some o’ their bluster after all.
1 matches

General Central

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Ahint aa the blaw an bluster, on page 55

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Despite aw their bluster anent bein selt oot, nane o t
unday Politics Scotland. Mair bluster an nae answer.
2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Lennox, Rab Yarns 3 - Ulster-Scot frae Magherafelt, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymoney, poetry
dinae hae all thon blast and bluster.
1 matches

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