Bairn
[bєәn]
Definition
(n.) A child.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Scottish.] Child, BABE.
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Definition
n. (Scot.) a child.—adj. Bairn′-like.—ns. Bairn′team Bairn′time brood of children.
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Examples
- He hadn't time, bairn: he was gone in a minute, was your father. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Do you really wish the bairn to go? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I wadn't heed if t' bairns and t' wife had enough to live on; but they're pinched--they're pined---- Well, my lad, and so are you; I see you are. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was a great reader, and studied a deal; and the bairns had taken after her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On his entrance his wife served out, in orderly sort, such dinner as she had to give him and the bairns. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And then to see how t' bairns liked him, and how t' wife took to him first minute she saw him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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