Definitions for bairns

bairns bairn

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

Bairns is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in bairns (abinrs).

Definitions for bairns

noun

  1. a child; son or daughter.

Origin of bairns

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 bairns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for bairns
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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