‘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.’
‘I accept at last the dreadful words of the divorce decree and agree to be as ‘one dead’ to you and the bairns.’
‘Essentially, she was merely doing what high-earning parents are doing throughout Britain's university towns, jumping on the property price express as a means of helping pay for the bairns ' education.’
youngster, young one, little one, boy, girl
Origin
Old English bearn, of Germanic origin; related to the verb bear.
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