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The word 'chib'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
chibOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.483
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 183.5 4 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of chib in Corpus

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North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
s weel as learnin him how tae chib his enemies, they taught Herc on page 2
oot." And he took his trusty chib, a big widden club he aye cai on page 8
sword, his bow and arras, his chib and the skin o the Lion o Nem on page 51
ed oot and grabbed his widden chib fae him. Hercules dodged and on page 56

4 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
nybody express the desire tae chib me acause o the wey ah pronoo
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
know him tae see, big bastarn chib doon his jaw wae a gless eye.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ings, fake tan, wet perms and chib marks, no necessarily in that
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Mr Wonka as if she wis gonnae chib him wi it. 'Whit are ye lauch on page 86

1 matches

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