Meaning of bairn in English
- 'My bairn! my bairn!' cried the distracted father, 'where can he be?' A dozen mouths were opened to communicate hopes which no one felt.
- But wait and I'll see the bairns.
- Kiss my darling bairns for papa, and give them my blessing.
- The children, or "bairns," as they were called here, wore neither shoes nor stockings, except a few of the very young ones, and all the arable land was devoted to the culture of oats and turnips.
- The only thing I grudge is being away all day, leaving you and the bairns, for I ken they're no' very easy to put up with.
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Thousands of old men and wives and bairns are starving and their breadwinners can get neither unemployment pay nor outdoor relief.
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Those are the most important years in a bairn's life.
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The bairns of the unemployed will now have to be satisfied with fewer sweets.
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In fact, very largely they have become factories for bairns.
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I was dealing with the case of a man left with two bairns of four and five and living in a kitchen.
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Our bairns require in those formative years of life that guidance which they are not getting in the distressed areas.
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We regard the lives of our miners, and those of their wives and "bairns" as of far more importance than pulley wheels.
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It is a matter causing grave thought that so many bairns every morning go to our schools underfed and badly clothed.
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Men were fighting the machine for their livelihoods and for their bairns' bread.
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If those bairns were in hospital, they could be costing the taxpayer about £200 a week for professional care.
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Let his wife have a bairn, and she cannot get maternity benefit.
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But when we come to legislation we become impersonal, and therefore very often impervious to the real needs of the bairns.
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We know about the brain drain and the brawn drain; now there is a "bairn drain".
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He is driven on because he wants to make a wage sufficient to keep his wife and bairns in decency.
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In the name of national economy, we are going to starve the bairns and break the hearts of the women.
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