bairnhood

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots bairnheid, equivalent to bairn +‎ -hood.

Noun

bairnhood (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly Scotland) The quality, condition, or state of a bairn (child); childhood
    • 1905, Robert Ames Bennet, For the White Christ:
      In my bairnhood I would often linger in the glens where they dwelt, to jeer at them.” “Truly, yours was a wild boyhood, Olvir. You have yet told me little of it.” “A merry bairnhood, though Otkar's was a heavy hand.”

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