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.