Definitions for bairn

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Spelling: [bairn; Scot. beyrn]
IPA: /bɛərn; Scot. beɪrn/

Bairn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in bairn (abinr).

Definitions for bairn

noun

  1. a child; son or daughter.

Origin of bairn

before 900; Middle English bern, barn, Old English bearn; cognate with Gothic, Old Norse, Old High German, Old Saxon, barn, Old Frisian bern, Middle Dutch baren, Albanian me barrë pregnant; a

Examples for bairn

The bairn joined in her tears till M'Iver took it in his arms.

I was not old, in heart—it pattered like a bairn's steps to every glimpse and sentence of her.

But, at any rate, she was his wife, and the bairn would be his bairn.

An', to tell the truth, sir, I'm no muckle mair nor a bairn in that respeck mysel'.

I speired at 'im what he meant by terrifyin' a bairn, but he didna say naething.

"I haena seen the bairn," replied David, in repressed perturbation.

"Jamie was richt like Joey when he was a bairn," Hendry said.

You forget I was but a bairn when we romped in the hay-dash.

Too awful it is for an aged man to bide and bear, that his bairn so young rides on the gallows.

Hath he no the smooth face o' a bairn and the thews' o' Behemoth?'

Word Value for bairn
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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