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The word 'scutter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scutterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 3
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 scutter in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
like that are a richt bloomin scutter on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah tootle an Ah scutter, on page 24

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
siller in his pooch, he didna scutter wi the usual warssles o hoose
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2013) Doric - Buckie
re deein. Bit it is a bit o a scutter and ah get intae a bit o a bo

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
wad like tae save time or the scutter o findin Tintin relatit locat on page 14

1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ch leagues, foggies an bairns scutter around at it indoors forby. A
1 matches

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
None of those? For me, ‘to scutter aboot’ means to waste time/p(2020)

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
pairt o the ploy wis mair o a scutter. Her faither had a buckie asi on page 70

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
(It's aye a scutter for a king on page 21

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
we cannae scutter! We cannae footer! 'There's e on page 162

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
boys scutter wi a puck on the frozen locha on page 9
- Year Yin wis an awfie scutter - on page 21

2 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
sDictionars In oor hoose, tae scutter wis tae mak a hash o things, (2020)

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