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The word 'pricks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pricksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 35.2 7 5
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 pricks in Corpus

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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
turbulent seas, sendin sherp pricks o fear up his rig. His fear-i
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the board room and saw aa the pricks sittin there yabblin awa at e
while and it got that bad the pricks sittin roon the table began t
onscious sight wiz some o the pricks standin up wi shocked looks o
3 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ted the lift, a thoosan preen pricks in a velvous curtain. on page 40

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
right wing, populist, racist pricks as onywye else - even has so (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - The Man Wha Jeopardeized The Continued Existence O The Universe, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
still swaws o skinklin prein-pricks. The
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
dd in the other 2 n there awe pricks (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
at me. Barrel ae laughs these pricks are. on page 103

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
s wull be plenty fur yooz wee pricks: on page 13
t's all eyez on me. These two pricks huvnae noticed me approachin. on page 28

2 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
w the characters urr complete pricks. It's great. on page 3

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
p" an make primal man noises. Pricks. on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
in starts again. These fuckin pricks ur pushin it man, ah’m tell
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the train station the noo ya pricks!’ he sais, approachin, his
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
rt people git hurt by the wee pricks lit you, on page 48

1 matches

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