SCOTS
CMSW

Search results

Refine your search | New search

579 occurrences of boy.

181 documents matching criteria (13.75% of corpus)

1,574,880 total words in matching documents (34.33% of corpus)

Showing documents 101 - 150 of 181

Page: < prev next > 1 2 3 4 | Results per page: 20 50 100 1000 All | Max word occurrences per document: 5

Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
Craiters: 04 - E Backlins Calfie Fenton, Alexander 1,628 1 0.61

... an ma jersey, an ma beets fae doon e stair, an aff e bold boy goes. It wis een o is crafties faar e hoose an e steadin ...
Craiters: 08 - E Forkietailies Fenton, Alexander 1,857 1 0.54

... o slack. If ye wis skeely enyeuch an made a gweed job o’t, boy e weer wid sing like a fiddle fin ye wis deen an it wid ...
Craiters: 11 - E Widdie Fenton, Alexander 3,526 2 0.57

... face I muttert – ‘Please sir’ ‘What’s the matter with you, boy?’ ‘Please sir, something’s wrang’. Three little waterfaas ...
... oot, I micht manage tae get it back an nae be noticet. ‘Boy, what are you doing?’ E vice stooned throwe’s. Black ...
Craiters: 20 - Biz-Bizzin Fenton, Alexander 3,297 1 0.30

... for't bit we'd aa tae hae a glaiss o butter-milk, an boy it wis cool an richt fine. Fit tae ait wis e neesht ...
Deadly Weapons [Content label: serious] Grainger, Cecilia 15,826 27 1.71

... STEW. Fur what? DIMPS. Bein bad…Ah wis a bad…Ah um a bad boy… STEW. Yur a man, man that’s gittin stronger every… DIMPS. ...
... Fuck sake! How long’s this gonnae go oan? CAMMY. Dimpsy boy, yur noh acceptin yur situation… DIMPS. He’s targettin me ...
... As Ah wis sayin… DIMPS. Fuckin acceptable bein mummy’s boy? Fuckin leper city bein daddy’s boy? CAMMY. Mrs Dimps? ...
... bein mummy’s boy? Fuckin leper city bein daddy’s boy? CAMMY. Mrs Dimps? DIMPS. Mr Cammy? Dimps runs at Cammy; ...
... STEW. Come oan you two? CAMMY. Hey Stew? Mibi Dimpsy boy wants some fantasy time…how ti kill yur nearest an dearest ...
D Greetin Bairn an D Soond U D Voice [Content label: serious] Smith, Mark R 3,399 3 0.88

... roarin at wid ensue dt wid geng alang da lines o: TEACHER: BOY, You shall not speak in Shetland dialect in this school. ...
... y...yeah..m..m.mr.. TEACHER: You say YES in this school boy, not yeah! TERRIFIED BAIRN: Yes sir. An so d “conflict” ...
... dae work t spik a foreign language. Joost lik wee d peerie boy in d schuil, pooer is exerted through language. Olivia ...
Diaries of William Young: 1952 Young, William 3,260 3 0.92

... Lunch & tents up by 2. pm. Camp nearly complete by 4. Boy takes pains in stomach. Have to send for doctor. He says ...
... danger. 20 SUNDAY To 9 Mass. All at Communion. Doc calls. Boy OK. Begin Raft afternoon. Boy goes home to Bowhill. Frs ...
... All at Communion. Doc calls. Boy OK. Begin Raft afternoon. Boy goes home to Bowhill. Frs Payne & Docherty arr. with ...
Diaries of William Young: 1972 Young, William 4,263 1 0.23

... trace smell of petrol. Car not finished. No sign of leak boy says. Wednesday 20 Car back but nothing has been done. ...
Dipper: 24 - Tribute to W.H.T.Inglis Reid, John 351 1 2.85

... Arrowe Park, Birkenhead: Site of 1929 International Boy Scout Jamboree. (Mr.Inglis was Scoutmaster of the Ayrshire ...
Dog's Bite; Bee's Sting [Content label: serious] Grainger, Cecilia 8,532 2 0.23

... screamin an bettin money like they wur at a dug fight: boy boxers Lee, unlicensed; dangerous… LEE. You an that fancy ...
... serious stuff…? PAT. Ah’m gittin oot Lee… LEE. That’s mah boy git oot; huv fun; live fur the day cause tomorrow never… ...
Easterhouse [Content label: serious] Smith, Rob Mcclure 4,644 2 0.43

... sparks shootin' oot his heid? Ah says tae masel, 'Billy-boy, that isnae right. That isnae normal.'" Uncle Murray was ...
... whale. A hockey puck came bouncing across the floor and a boy in a kilt trapped it with his instep. The bride's family ...
Evie Barron, Charles 11,528 2 0.17

... that meant. I often wondered, but I never found oot. But, boy, I could spell it. (Chanting) ...
... spot”. We got a badge to wear a’ week, if we were the top boy or girl. Oh, she kent fit she was deein’, did Corkie. It ...
Extracts from weblog [Content label: serious] Rimbaud, Dee 8,258 1 0.12

... of unthinking golems (although it is a thought, that Billy Boy may well be a manifestation of Satan): just that there is ...
Fat Boy Swim Forde, Catherine 4,077 4 0.98

... NIBBLES Chapter 1 Fat Boy Fat 'Oi, boobsy. Move your fat butt! We're under pressure ...
... Not even when Victor jooked round him and crowed, 'Fat Boy Fat', to an accompanying volley of gobs and laughter. ...
... What was the smell exactly? Earth, and sweat and dirt. A boy smell. A team smell. Shared activity. Belonging. It was a ...
... time. Inside, Jimmy didn't feel like Smelly Kelly, Fat Boy Fat. Of course not. He was just - a teenager. Normal in ...
Gean Blossoms Purves, David 6,034 1 0.17

... league leim, v, gleam lift, n, sky ligg, v, lie loun, n, boy lourd, a, heavy lousum, a, lovable lowe, n, flame lown, a, ...
GOW Newsletter Mar 2005 Roberts, John 1,085 1 0.92

... they believed the burglar had forgotten to get his wee boy a Christmas present and was trying to give him a happy ...
Guts Barron, Charles 22,515 3 0.13

... ask to be lee’d te, mither. Jist pit it doon tae your wee boy’s lucky charm. GEORGIE (To audience.) ‘At means he’s been ...
... 30. An’ you took them, without thinkin’ to check. Bright boy. They must think you’re their Santy Claus. DOD I’m sorry, ...
... Ma! GEORGIE (putting on a “mummy comforting her wee boy” voice) Dinna worry, my loon. I’ll tell the bobbies that ...
How do we teach Knowledge about Language? Philp, Andrew 4,340 3 0.69

... with the denser noun phrases which evoke the sights the boy observes in the graveyard (e.g. ‘a carving of a leopard ...
... ‘A weaver’, ‘Not yet’), which creates a sense of the boy musing about what he sees, and also helps to convey an ...
... This contrasts in the former text with the dyslexic boy, Solomon’s, own view (mainly 1st person and present tense) ...
Jade Lute Purves, David 7,581 1 0.13

... waterfall lippert, a, disturbed littil, a, little loun, n, boy lourd, a, heavy lousum, a, lovable lowe, n, flame lown, a, ...
Joseph Knight (extract 3) Robertson, James 7,660 2 0.26

... important, whit richt had this Captain Knight tae sell the boy? He either kidnapped or purchased him frae the coast o ...
... entered intae by themsels. But Joseph Knight was a mere boy o eleiven when he was taen: he couldna hae been a sodger ...
Journal of the Russian Trip Kay, Prof Christian 6,438 3 0.47

... were sharing had at least two huge rooms. As one Swedish boy said, he had to wait for Russia to have his first taste of ...
... something to do with one of the astronauts. Asked a little boy what they were for: reply, it’s Krushchev’s birthday. ...
... birthday. Hastily nudged and corrected by another little boy. It must be hard to keep abreast! Saturday Farewell to ...
Kin Ye Mind? Hynd, George 338 1 2.96

... Kin ye mind the days o long ago When you were jist a boy Those days fair fu' o happiness A' filled wi mirth an joy ...
Letter from Frances Gardner 05 - 17/10/89 Gardner, Frances 348 1 2.87

... Kathryn had a "whizz kid" in looking for a job - a young boy with 5 Highers 7A's etc and a confessed computer Hacker!! ...
Mephistophelean Ballant-Scherzo on ane Fife Legend Hubbard, Tom 288 1 3.47

... - See that boy Faust? He scunners me, The toffee-nebbit cratur; Aye on at ...
Mountain Music - Chapters 1-4 Mackay, Sheila 50,638 2 0.04

... to this day. For Salvador, Vyborni was the beautiful boy of classical antiquity incarnate, whose image was all the ...
... the rage among European aristocracy after The Benevenuto Boy - the first century BC sculpture found at Herculaneum, his ...
"Obituary for Christine Guthrie, 1896-1999" MacGillivray, Alan 1,893 1 0.53

... literary partnership developed. When Leslie Mitchell was a boy in Arbuthnott, he used to cycle all over the district ...
Pillars of Society Thirkell, Alison 29,032 1 0.03

... You shouldn't put such outlandish notions into the boy's head, Mr Thomson. HARRY: No, I daresay. He's to turn ...
Preparing to Meet the Minotaur Blackhall, Sheena 8,944 2 0.22

... We touched through glass, just as we always did. Birthday Boy (3 year-old; overheard on a bus) Fit a lot o flags are oot ...
... were tumbling, Out of a troubled sky. "Will I ever find a boy to take my hand?" The young girl asked, As political ...
Refuge [Content label: serious] Paisley, Janet 22,040 6 0.27

... with, Carolanne? (PAUSE, WITH GROWING ANGER) The wee boy's two, and the baby, six months. He'd put them in the room ...
... BOARD TO TAKE TO KITCHEN. UPSTAIRS A BABY CRIES AND A WEE BOY CALLS MUMMY, MUMMY. BETH DOESN'T REGISTER THE CHILDREN) ...
... BETH) She all right? SADIE: Right as rain. She's got a wee boy, and a bairn. GORDON: Oh great. I'll get to play in the ...
... right, I suppose. GORDON: Great. (TO AGNES) What's the wee boy's name? AGNES: Timothy. GORDON: Right. (HE EXITS. SADIE ...
... them. David's sixteen. They wouldn't let him come here. A boy that age counts as a man. And men aren't allowed. I ...
Remember this Face! [Content label: serious] 'The Driver' 1,226 5 4.08

... that! A bus swung round the corner with Toothlock Doddy Boy at the controls. The vehicle was packed to the rafters ...
... driving Mill Owners in the city. I bade Toothlock Doddy Boy a good evening as I climbed into the cab. His shift for ...
... go and gasped for fresh air. Damn that Toothlock Doddy Boy! Did he not know that it is bus driving de rigueur to open ...
... suffering Death By Toosh on account of Toothlock Doddy Boy's ignorance. So let him in I did, and long did I rue that ...
... like bailing out and going home. Damn that Toothlock Doddy Boy! What was he up to? A paranoid voice inside my head was ...
Saands o Maywick Johnson, Laureen 1,333 2 1.50

... I hears dem shoutin da wan tae da tidder, an some peerie boy comes flyin every fit fae da banks, wi a lantern in his ...
... An my Loard, I towt, lookin at wir Peter, what is du, boy? Thirteen year aald, an skipperin a boat, an me worryin me ...
Scots in Hawaii [Content label: serious] Smith, Rob Mcclure 4,470 3 0.67

... was hot as red chili peppers. Well Aloha there, boy. His name was Adrian and he said he was a graduate student ...
... for an extra buck. "Ah widnae mind blowin’ yon volcano boy's tap aff," Morag observed to Bethia. Bethia smiled at ...
... "Ah widnae say no tae a littoral explosion wi' volcano boy masel." "Paws aff," barked Morag, snapping. 'Ah seen him ...
Scotspik de Rusett, Wendy 890 1 1.12

... gaun? I dinna ken. 4. You say girl. We say quine. You say boy. We say loon. You say child. We say bairn. You say woman. ...
Scots Tung Wittins 111 Fairnie, Robert 2,503 1 0.40

... accoonts o Mary, Queen o Scots. Aprile 1565:- Item. To ane boy passend of Edinburgh, with ane charge of the Queenis ...
Scots Tung Wittins 128 Fairnie, Robert 2,464 1 0.41

... artificially as the king come by, quherein was a young boy that descend it craftelye, presenting the keyes of the ...
Scots Tung Wittins 150 Fairnie, Robert 2,508 1 0.40

... that can cook "salmon on crootie" thanks tae Fiona's nancy-boy pals, wis concairned at her bringin hame a strecht man, ...
Scots Tung Wittins 154 Fairnie, Robert 2,160 1 0.46

... fictional…", her Dad gets a mint in a line aboot the Teddy Boy windae dresser, Joe Fraser, when the buyer, Miss ...
Scots Tung Wittins 166 Fairnie, Robert 2,498 1 0.40

... Wha's morals daurs secularisatioun, He's juist the boy, the makar Henrysoun! Now I'm fair wabbit, daunerin roun ...
Scots Tung Wittins 173 Fairnie, Robert 2,078 1 0.48

... on an auld wife's flainen toy; Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On's wylecoat; But Miss's fine Lunardi, fye! Haw daur ye ...
Scots Tung Wittins 43 Fairnie, Robert 2,132 1 0.47

... Queen's Thesaurer's Accounts:- Aprile 1565:- Item. To one boy passend of Edinburgh, with ane charge of the Queenis ...
Scots Tung Wittins 70 Fairnie, Robert 2,337 1 0.43

... aa things Shoap : WILLIAM INGLIS a. In the windae, a wee boy is gittin his neck washed. Pick twa-three words oot o this ...
Scots Tung Wittins 94 Fairnie, Robert 2,651 1 0.38

... artificially as the king come by, quherein was a young boy that descendit craftelye, presenting the keyes of the ...
Scottish Parliament: Business Bulletin 116/2002 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 10,576 1 0.09

... in Iraq by any means necessary; condemns the USA's bully-boy tactics and its international sabre-rattling, which does ...
Scottish Parliament: Committees: Equal Opportunities: Official Reports: Meeting 2, 2003 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 12,710 1 0.08

... James O'Rourke: I have a multidisabled, visually impaired boy and I would say that there is more awareness in this area ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (07/09/00) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,710 1 0.02

... of Scots in the Borders. He told the tale about a little boy who said to him, "Please, sir, does oor real teacher ken ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (26/09/01) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 33,438 2 0.06

... Scots officially to children who really spoke Scots. A wee boy put up his hand and said, "Please Sir, does oor real ...
... we need to continue with that progress. I hope that my wee boy has more success with modern languages than I did. 17:48 ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (27/03/03) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,991 6 0.11

... 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and even beyond. I started as an office boy at 16 years of age. In those days, it was not possible to ...
... days, it was not possible to be promoted beyond an office boy until it was seen whether the call came for national ...
... of them was the head clerk, who had started as an office boy in the same firm when Queen Victoria was in the last few ...
... Presiding Officer: You have one minute. Mrs McIntosh: Oh boy. In that case, I pay tribute to previous contributors ...
... Piraeus have made other bids. However, even an Edinburgh boy such as I knows that Glasgow can readily see off that ...
Selection of weblog entries [Content label: lesser] 1184 2,272 3 1.32

... 07/08/07 Post Boy Jobsworth As well as the crazies out on the street there ...
... people around you 8 hours a day at your work. The "post boy" in my office is over 50 years old and I can’t figure out ...
... old and I can’t figure out if he’s always been a post room boy or if he’s ever held a position of authority and is just ...
Serendipity and ither poems in Scots and English Blackhall, Sheena 12,339 1 0.08

... Lan Tune: can be sung to a variation of ‘To be a Farmer’s Boy.’ Ten generations o my fowk hae vrocht the North East lan ...
Sermons Morrison, Mr Robert 3,660 1 0.27

... Born into this world was two boys. The one was a hairy boy that is to say he had more hair that His wee Brother His ...

Page: < prev next > 1 2 3 4 | Results per page: 20 50 100 1000 All | Max word occurrences per document: 5

Your recently viewed documents: