bairn
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bairn
- /bɛərn/
- [bern] Scotland
- [bɛrn] Scotland
- [bɜːɹn]
- [bɛəʁn] Northumbria, rare
- /bɛən/
- [bɛːn] UK
- [bɜːn]
- /ˈbaːn/
Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)n, -ɑː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
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.
noun bairns
- 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.
verb bairns · bairning · bairned
- To get (someone) pregnant. Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy.
