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单词 grandbairn
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grandbairnn.

Brit. /ˈɡran(d)bɛːn/, U.S. /ˈɡræn(d)ˌbɛ(ə)rn/, Scottish English /ˈɡran(d)bern/
Forms: pre-1700 1800s– grandbairn, 1800s– granbairn.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grand- comb. form, bairn n.
Etymology: < grand- comb. form + bairn n.
Scottish and English regional (northern)
A grandchild.Earliest in great-grand-bairn (cf. great adj. 12a).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandchild > [noun]
oy1488
grandchild1569
grandbairn1689
grandling1751
grandbabe1789
mokopuna1824
grandbaby1830
grandwean1877
grandkid1895
grand1922
1689 W. Lockhart Let. 13 Aug. in W. H. L. Melville Leven & Melville Papers (1843) 251 We..wish you may live to see your grat-grand-bairns.
1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 179 I had a hame wi' a sweet wife there, An' twa bonnie grand-bairns my smiling to share.
1882 J. Hyslop Dream of Masque & Other Poems 136 An' may gran-bairns sab ‘Sirs, the auld man' wun awa.’
1916 J. E. Buckrose Matchmakers xx. 161 I h'aint had a kiss off a pretty young less for fifty year. Grand-bairns' kisses don't count.
1995 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 17 Sept. (Features section) 3 My dad had full, secure employment but I'm nervous about my sons' future. And my grandbairns—whatever will happen to them?
2000 J. Tulloch Season Ticket iii. 62 It's me grandbairn. Ah'm looking after him for the weekend. Me daughta works weekends.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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