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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots bairnheid, equivalent to bairn + -hood.
Noun
bairnhood (uncountable)
- (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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