| 单词 | town's bairn |
| 释义 | > as lemmastown's bairn town's bairn n. Scottish a person native to a particular town. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > fellow townsman concitizen1428 co-citizen1488 comburgess1517 fellow citizen1550 townsman1562 conscive1578 town's bairn?1591 comburgher1605 townsfolk1614 townschild1621 city mana1661 townsboy1699 town folk1805 townie1824 townsfellow1830 homeboy1861 homie1929 homes1971 ?1591 in J. H. Pagan Ann. Ayr (1897) iii. 76 [The assistant at the grammar school received] quarterlie 12d of ilk townis barne with his meit about of ilk barne ane day successive, and of ilk landward barne 2s quarterlie. 1656 in J. Irving Hist. Dumbartonshire (1920) II. App. 325 That nane of the said craftsmen tak ane unfrieman or outer tounesbairn to be his prentice. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) iv. 32 M'Ghee, our ain town's bairn. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 77 He was a Scot himsell, and what is more, a town's-bairn o' the gude town. 1906 R. Walker & A. M. Munro Handbk. City & University (Univ. Aberdeen Quatercentenary Celebrations) ii. 134 In 1755 the present West Church, built from the design of James Gibbs, the famous London architect, himself a ‘toon's bairn’, was opened for public worship. < as lemmas |
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