bairn

名词 n. 动词 v.
[bɛːn]   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A child or baby. Scotland
    — She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.
动词 v.
  1. To get (someone) pregnant. Scotland,transitive
    — Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy.

词形变化

bairns plural bairns present,singular,third-person bairning participle,present bairned participle,past bairned past

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.
词源 2
Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.
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