Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A child.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A child; a son or daughter. See
barn .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. & Prov. Eng. A child.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland, and parts of Northern England A
child orbaby .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a child: son or daughter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She heard herself remonstrating, "Sir, ye canna force your ain bairn, to make her meeserable," and the response, "What the deevil have you to do with it, if I make her meeserable or no?"
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"The bairn is clean out of her senses!" cried Marg'ret almost with a scream.
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Margaret, in reflecting on her four Samuels, wonders, "Do a wee but of a name change the plans o 'God? .... be God a weak, shilly-shallyun creature thot ud alter the fate an' destiny o 'thungs because Margaret Heenan seen fut till name her bairn Samuel?"
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!”
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Margaret Henan seen fut tull name her bairn Samuel?
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An 'then I see Doctor Hall go away, wrunklun' hus eyebrows an 'shakun' hus head like the bairn was ailun '.
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I needna tell ye I christened him Alick, and the bairn has been my joy and comfort ever since God gifted me with him.
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` ` The bairn was a blessing --- that is, Jeanie, it wad hae been a blessing if it hadna been for my mother; but my mother's a queer woman.
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An’ then I see Doctor Hall go away, wrunklun’ hus eyebrows an’ shakun’ hus head like the bairn was ailun’.
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Do the world run by hut or muss, an’ be God a weak, shully-shallyun’ creature thot ud alter the fate an’ destiny o’ thungs because the worm Margaret Henan seen fut tull name her bairn Samuel?
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She listened to Lisbeth's cheerful chatter as she bustled about the room, encouraging her "bairn" to try a piece of this, a "wee bit scrappie" of that, till Marjory told her that she simply couldn't eat any more.
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