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24 occurrences of scunner.

19 documents matching criteria (1.44% of corpus)

145,448 total words in matching documents (3.17% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
A Braw Guid Alairm Fairnie, Robert 1,498 1 0.67

... they didnae find oniethin.” “It maun hae been a richt scunner no kennin whit wis wrang.” said Geordie. “Ay, but it wis ...

Awfy thochts: The closemouth jottings of Wullie MacKersall Glen, Michael Hamish 3,176 1 0.31

... nearly Reached a hunner. 'Life,' he says, 'is Sic a scunner. Ma freen's aw deid, Aye, every felly. Aw Ah can dae is ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 14, recording 1: making gingerbread biscuits N/A Audio 4,405 1 0.23

... //And look Mum!// F1107: //Aye.// What? Oh! Ye scunner! M1108: [eating noises] //Yummy! Whee, woo!// ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 14, recording 2: playing snooker N/A Audio 1,778 1 0.56

... chase me!// F1107: //Ooh, ye're gonna be a scunner when you get big.// //No I winna,// M1108: //Chase ...

Craiters: 09 - Watter Rats Fenton, Alexander 2,693 1 0.37

... fair puckly o e bonny black craiturs. Syne I took a richt scunner at masel, an stoppit. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in ...

Halesome Farin' Waddell, Mr John 15,793 1 0.06

... times waur - aye, he has much tae answer for. He's taen a scunner noo tae weeds, forgettin their nutritious seeds, an he ...

Minnie Blackhall, Sheena 32,033 3 0.09

... mair job tae tick aff amang a heeze o ithers. A tyauve, a scunner, a trauchle. Fin Jock Dow wirked the horse,tho, ye kent ...
... let it nae be skitters' she prayed silently. Minnie tuik scunner usin the dry lavvies oot in the playgrun, the timmer seats ...
... her, Steenhillock ooto thocht fur her faither Dod, an scunner o the Dam itsel, hid banned Minnie fae settin fit within a ...

Overheard at the Chippie: Big brither, wee brither Blackhall, Sheena 142 1 7.04

... hae thon can o coke? I wint it! Wint it! Yer jist a flamin scunner. No, ye canna. Dannie, can I clap yon big Alsation? Nuh. ...

Pillars of Society Thirkell, Alison 29,032 1 0.03

... life - ! As if I hadny enough to think o! And then the wee scunner has the cheek to tell me that he'll run awa. That'll be ...

Preparing to Meet the Minotaur Blackhall, Sheena 8,944 2 0.22

... blichtit gum ... a fooshtie fang, wad gie a verra deil the scunner. A hoast can set yer throat ableeze. A neb can dreep like ...
... can I hae a coke? I wint it! Wint it!" Yer jist a flamin scunner. No, ye canna. "Dan, can I clap yon big Alsatian dug?" ...

Scots Tung Wittins 155 Fairnie, Robert 2,593 1 0.39

... as weel. It wis originally inspired bi Roald Dahl haein a scunner at bairds. Tae celebrate whit wad hiv been Roald Dahl's ...

Scots Tung Wittins 159 Fairnie, Robert 2,479 1 0.40

... A BBC Scunner BBC Scotland's raicent "Hogmanay Live" shaw maun rank as ...

Scots Tung Wittins 89 Fairnie, Robert 2,612 1 0.38

... Gommerel, Fushionless, Soor beukey, Pyocher, Raivelt, Scunner, Hyterin, Skitter, Fykie, Huddery heidit, Pernickety, ...

Tetchie Auld-timer Henderson, John 149 1 6.71

... kimmer says, “Ye’re ready fer the skip!” A soond an affa scunner me, Fair hypochondriacal. Bit niver mynd a aye can eese, ...

The Buik o Ruth: 09 - Sermon at the Lallans Society Conference 1974 Borrowman, A S 1,487 1 0.67

... the rike and sillery agayne the poverail. We hae soorin, scunner, wanhap and wanhope. We dinna hae saught, for we hae ...

The Buik o Ruth: 12 - Sermon at Partick Newton Place Church, Glesca, 1976 Borrowman, A S 1,347 1 0.74

... the sillery wi the puir and hungert. We hae soorin, we hae scunner, but ae thing we hinna, saught. We hae biggit ane ugsome ...

The Quarry Blackhall, Sheena 23,932 2 0.08

... Auntie Jude his traiveller bluid in her, an sic fowk tak a scunner at the thocht o their ain flesh bein taen bi anither,” she ...
... gien him films o Gracelan an Elvis an dolphins –eneuch tae scunner a body – onless that body wis Bappy, fa loued Elvis as if ...

The Stalking Cure [Content label: lesser] Corbett, Dr John B 6,214 2 0.32

... honour to be, your obedient servant, John Macnab. I widnae scunner ye bi revealin the ootcome o the challenge, but suffice it ...
... mirky past and an ee for a bonnie laddie. Again, I winnae scunner yous bi spylin the endin, but suffice it tae say that the ...

The Wizard o the North Blackhall, Sheena 5,141 1 0.19

... buy In the consumer clan. Ye winna? Och, yer eeseless, A scunner o a da. I'd kill fur a computer Gonna get ain, ma? The ...


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