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The word 'sheeks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sheeksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.796
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 6
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 sheeks in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"Hadd dee sheeks!" da Gryphon pat in, afore Al on page 97
, wi da taers runnin doon his sheeks, on he guid ageen: on page 99

2 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
weemin stdd wi tears apo dir sheeks. Der wis an owld ean an twa y on page 17

1 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
him, bit he nivver opened his sheeks.
1 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
n, but mibee he stopped fir a sheeks we some fine craetir.”
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
raisin in nae time ava. An da sheeks o dem niver aesed. We heard a
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
she prinked in da mirror her sheeks wir as red as da new ribbons
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
e things. A roond elf wife wi sheeks laek sheeny red aipples wis d
1 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
Hadd dee sheeks, Willie https://t.co/6knNwnBy(2019)

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