bairn
/bɛːn
/noun chiefly Scottish & Northern English
A child.We used to mix it with that Ministry of Food orange juice the bairns were issued around the 1950s....
- In India, of course, the problem is that they have too many bairns.
- It was terrible what happened to those bairns,’ she said.
Origin
Old English bearn, of Germanic origin; related to the verb bear1.
Rhymes
- Nordkapp
- Nordkyn
- nordmarkite
- nordmarkitic
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Nordski
- nordstrandite
- nor'-east
- nor-east
- norephedrine
- norepinephrine
- no rest for the wicked
- no rest (or peace) for the wicked
- norethindrone
- norethisterone
- norethynodrel
- noretynodrel
- norfloxacin
- Norfolk
- Norfolk Crag
- Norfolk dumpling
- Norfolk Horn
- Norfolk Howard
- Norfolk Island