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
- benzopyrene
- benzoquinone
- benzoyl
- benzoyl peroxide
- benzyl
- benzylpiperazine
- be of
- be of (any) use
- be of assistance
- be off
- be off the charts
- be of one (or a different) mind
- be of service
- be of the belief that
- be of the opinion that
- Beograd
- be old enough to be someone's father (or mother)
- be on about
- be on a hiding to nothing
- be on at someone
- be one's brother's keeper
- be oneself
- be one's life
- be one's own boss
- be one's (own) lookout