noun

• A child.

  ‘We used to mix it with that Ministry of Food orange juice the bairns were issued around the 1950s.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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.’

  Synonyms

  youngster, young one, little one, boy, girl