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The word 'sharpish'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sharpishOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
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
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 sharpish in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ulatin that if we didnae exit sharpish then she'd soon be bokin aw o on page 68
y in case the cunt wid see me sharpish. Ah've goat tae admit ah'm al on page 121

2 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
use fur us tae make oor exit, sharpish.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
up hunni - so a nipped thru sharpish lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
he wean, we dived aff the bus sharpish and laughed wur heids aff aw on page 102

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Gettin up, ah pull them oan sharpish - ma cock noo, thankfully su
1 matches

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