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bairn

noun
/bɛərn//bɛːn/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.

  1. derived from *barną✻
  2. derived from *barn✻
  3. derived from bearn
  4. derived from bern
  5. borrowed from bairn

Definitions

  1. A child or baby.

    • She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.
    • They say that a shag is good for an unborn child, they get the circulation of blood, or some shite. The least ah kin dae is take an interest in the bairn’s welfare.
    • Bobby Shaftoe's getten a bairn For to dandle in his arm; In his arm and on his knee, Bobby Shaftoe loves me.

  2. To get (someone) pregnant.

    • Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy.
    • Just because he's signed up fir the fuckin army again, six bastard years this time, and bairned some slag.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for bairn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA