Usually means: Children, especially in Scottish dialect.
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  1. bairns: Merriam-Webster
  2. bairns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bairns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bairns, bairn's, bairns: Wordnik
  5. bairns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bairns: Wiktionary
  7. bairns: Dictionary.com
  8. The Bairns (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. bairns: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bairns: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bairn)

▸ noun:  (Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby.
▸ verb:  (transitive, Scotland) To make pregnant.
▸ Also see bairn


Opposite:
adults, grown-ups, seniors

Types:
laddie, lassie, bairn, wean, wee one, wee bairn, wee lassie, more...

Phrases:
bairns part, more...

Adjectives:
poor, wee, better, little, own, elder, many, dear, fatherless, lang, young



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Opposite:
adults, grown-ups, seniors

Types:
laddie, lassie, bairn, wean, wee one, wee bairn, wee lassie, more...

Phrases:
bairns part, more...

Adjectives:
poor, wee, better, little, own, elder, many, dear, fatherless, lang, young




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