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The word 'dafty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daftyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33112
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 29.3 12 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 56.4 11 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 dafty 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.

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Tales Fae The Doric Side - Bullied, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Yer an ugly dafty ... their wirds brocht pain on page 56

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@aberdeentaxi1 Dafty(2020)

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
wi chants o "yer brither's a dafty" frae some o the ither bairns on page 1

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Come oan, ya dafty!" ah roar, and ah mimic the j on page 39
a vital organ fur five grand, dafty! ma nephew made maire money w on page 53
ery up toon. Or tae hear some dafty read a poem written aboot how on page 81
is. Although neither wis he a dafty. He could ryme oaff the Hibs on page 86
Jist imagine some dafty cawed Charles wae aw his priv on page 92
Also on pages 106, 111, 145, 193, 199
10 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
e in mah seat - thinks ahm a dafty. Ah've fucked it. on page 9
ter no fuckin be aboot me, ya dafty,' ah say. on page 20
hat? Joost write them doon ya dafty.' on page 28

3 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'HAW YOU, YA FUCKIN DAFTY!' he screams at the boy, afor on page 19
a créche noo, troops?' some dafty says, gittin a laugh fae the on page 25
McColl. 'Fuckin mon then, ya dafty. Come ahead!' A shout at the on page 28
Ali be smashing the next dafty that tries it with me on page 33
A'm yir da, ya fuckin dafty!" on page 42
Also on pages 43
7 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
stair leavin him an the other dafty tae get oan wae it.
1 matches

General Central

Heron, Caitlin Groonded, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
In ma room like a right dafty
1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
ot late replies ya bonnie wee dafty! Are you fabbydabbydocious? ? (2022) twitter link
red an fall oan yer coupon ya dafty! (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
"An airm, ye dafty! Whae e'er saw yin that size? on page 36

1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
should hev used plastic yins dafty(2013)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
and doon the concourse lik a dafty when A got there tryin tae fi
1 matches

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