| 单词 | brother bairn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrother bairn brother bairn n. Scottish in later use (a) a brother's child, a nephew or niece; (b) an uncle's child, a cousin. [Compare Old Frisian brōtherbern.] ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 2619 Onela..no ymbe ða fæhðe spræc, þeah ðe he his broðor bearn abredwade. c1275 ( Will of Wulfsige (Sawyer 1537) in D. Whitelock Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930) 74 Habbe Stanhand alle þinge þe ic him bicueðen habbe, and mine brother bern here owen lond. 1530 Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes f. 114 Jok Bell..his sonis, brethir, and brethir barnis. 1620 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) III. 320 To dispone the samen to thair..brether barneis. 1869 G. Hill Montgomery Manuscripts i. 100/1 There was no one to whom the expression ‘brother bairns’ could apply, save to the children of captain Alexander Montgomery. 1936 J. Henderson in Sc. National Dict. (1941) II. 273/3 [Caithness] He's ma brither-bairn [i.e. uncle's son], bit a'll no heyl 'im. 1991 I. Sutherland Caithness Dict. 14 Brither bairn, cousin. < as lemmas |
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