noun
- a child
Usage: Scottish; Northern English
Examples
- The old woman loved telling stories to the local bairns.
- Every bairn in the village knew the legend of the haunted castle.
- She watched her bairn play in the garden with great joy.
- The teacher gathered all the bairns for story time.
- He was just a wee bairn when his family moved to Edinburgh.
- The bairns ran through the fields on that sunny afternoon.