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579 occurrences of boy.

181 documents matching criteria (13.75% of corpus)

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

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
A few notes on old Kilwinning Town and the Biography of Robert Morrison, Crosshouse. Morrison, Mr Robert 5,211 4 0.77

... My wage was 9/ per week and I can tell you I was a proud boy when I put 18/ in my mothers hand in Lamonts Row where I ...
... from one end of the town to the other The most of my boy companions were schooled in the parish school but I was ...
... remember the last time the boys engaged in that sport the boy who was made Captain was Robert McGowin by name. He ...
... water which I remember was introduced when I was a boy. It was conveyed in metal pipes from the Munick reservoir ...
All That Glisters Donovan, Anne 2,713 1 0.37

... decorations, hen? Ah’m no sure. Ah got some fur ma wee boy an he loved them. Aye they’re dead good. Thanks. Ah ...
A lock o hellery Johnson, Laureen 1,933 1 0.52

... ‘He could devise more hellery in a minute than the average boy would think of in a year.’ (William Peden, British ...
Ane Auld Sang Purves, David 7,319 1 0.14

... loch(an), n, lake loss, v, lose loue, v, love loun, n, boy lourd, a, heavy lousum, a, lovable lowdent, v, calmed down ...
A Small Book of Translations: 12 - Catullus 11 Hutchison, Alexander 211 1 4.74

... a mother bereft at the grave of her own sweet biddable boy – he's smiling still. Whatever it is, wherever he is, ...
A Small Book of Translations: 15 - Catullus 14 Hutchison, Alexander 49 1 20.41

... down as soon as the Muses sussed it was him. Dicky-boy tilts at the mound of Minerva all in vain: forked and ...
A Small Book of Translations: 32 - Glossary & Notes Hutchison, Alexander 1,973 3 1.52

... dit: Funcy is fancy; smitten is infected; loon is a lad or boy; bap is a plain bun; glyte is cock-eyed; chiel (like ...
... when; birkie refers here to a smart, well-built youth or boy; virra loon is the very boy; houlet (or oolet) is an owl; ...
... a smart, well-built youth or boy; virra loon is the very boy; houlet (or oolet) is an owl; spirkin is sparking, lively; ...
A Study into the Knowledge and Use of Scots Amongst Primary Pupils on Upper Deeside Blackhall, Sheena 29,793 2 0.07

... spoke English in the interview setting, but as one boy pointed out 'I don't know you', and the interviews with ...
... is not the language of their children. One primary seven boy was desperate to know 'how he had scored', so he could ...
...Auld Zimmery [Content label: serious] Kydd, Robbie 73,728 56 0.76

... She explains this to me off-handedly and adds, 'Ma boy-friend says I dinnae have tae work, but I'm no gaun on the ...
... When Fiona goes. A hand to grip. I glimpsed her boy-friend today, from the hallway, threateningly clanking and ...
... warmly. You-know-who won't like that. Andy is a bad boy. I don't know if I can write the next bit, but I must, for ...
... what we're doing, Fiona and I. 'Punkie,' I ask, 'your boy-friend?' 'Wha're ye cryin Punkie?' 'I used to call my wife ...
... and lie down under my duvet and fall asleep like a good boy. A more-or-less good boy. A bad boy, to be honest, But bad ...
Awfy thochts: The closemouth jottings of Wullie MacKersall Glen, Michael Hamish 3,176 1 0.31

... is flighty. But you should see Her see-through nightie! BOY'S OWN Yon Nathan Watt Bides up oor stair. His body's like ...
BBC Voices Recording: Aberdeen N/A Audio 13,536 2 0.15

... an she was in the hospital, Michelle, an the little boy next tae her come fae Turriff, //well they've got a ...
... was French, I said tae her, "Do you speak tae the little boy in the next bed?", she said, "No, because he's foreign", ...
BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar [Content label: lesser] N/A Audio 13,714 2 0.15

... a name after that I think, 'kids'. M1016: Or a 'wee boy' or M1014: Aye or a wee, aye. M1016: Just a 'wee ...
... or M1014: Aye or a wee, aye. M1016: Just a 'wee boy'. F1054: Mmhm. M1016: A 'wee laddie'. M1014: ...
BBC Voices Recording: Hawick N/A Audio 11,536 1 0.09

... hookey'.// M1010: Oo caed it 'dippy' when I was a boy. //Ye playin dippy frae the scuil.// F1011: ...
BBC Voices Recording: Inverurie N/A Audio 12,014 1 0.08

... it's aye either got a loon or a quine, //dependin on boy or girl.// F1001: //Mmhm.// M1000: //Aye.// M999: ...
BBC Voices Recording: Leith N/A Audio 16,679 3 0.18

... of course, you could never play peevers, if you were a boy, they get, hae doots aboot ye, the peevers, you know the ...
... have to buy tools. You know, the mother of this one boy [inaudible] in the trade "got to buy his tools, I've got ...
... my father used that word a lot. "Bring these strides boy, here, bring the boots", and you had to get all his stuff ...
BBC Voices Recording: Perth N/A Audio 17,146 1 0.06

... you were meant to wear trousers you would have been born a boy!" //"Get them off! You should have a skirt on", an// ...
BBC Voices Recording: Portree N/A Audio 14,267 5 0.35

... we like the sound of. Ehm I remember when I was a wee boy, ehm [laugh] [laugh] it's jist a very strange ...
... recently in fact [laugh] describing a mother giving, her boy had done something wrong an the other brother reported ...
... //Uh-huh yeah.// M1008: We had, when I was a boy we had a exactly the same as yourselves, the kitchen and ...
... the minister when he came for tea, and when I was a wee boy I I simply called it 'Rium a' Mhinistear', //'the ...
... - yer claes in the grun." And we all looked at the poor boy blankly, and he repeated himself again //"Yer ...
BBC Voices Recording: Stirling N/A Audio 14,324 4 0.28

... F1143: But boys an ye get girl neds an boy neds, //and it's completely politically incorrect for a ...
... heard it but I was teaching locally on supply an a wee boy opened his piece box an he said, "Oh great, I've got a ...
... said them, h- cause he was just he's a, he's a clever boy an he just spoke them an he said he said, "Well, the ...
... big deal an it's good, an we had this kinda recalcitrant boy called [CENSORED: forename], and I was tryin tae get ...
Biggam Collection Letter: 08 Trotter, May 455 1 2.20

... also. It is all young staff in the departments now and boy! do they know how to swing the lead and get away with it. ...
Biggam Collection Letter: 20 Law, Madge Taylor 482 1 2.07

... joke he learned at school and it goes like this. "A little boy went shopping with his Mum & Dad and kept saying that ...

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