bairn
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Definition of bairn
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Scotland)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.”
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noun
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(Scotland)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.”
verb
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(Scotland, transitive)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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
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