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Jane Eyre vocabulary
1 English vocabulary words more prevalent in Scotland
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bairn
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tags: [scotland]
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Definition:a young child
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she did fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house, when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for?
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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“Pah! After ye’ve had a bairn or two, ye might show lines there. More like you’d have them on your face. Proves nothing at all beforehand.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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a decent old woman bolting out from the door of a poor habitation, cried, 'Where is my bairn? where is my dear Willy?'
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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to have three things in all but this a mere fetch without bottom of reason for old crones and bairns yet sometimes they are found in the right guess with their queerities no telling how.
James Joyce. Ulysses (1922)
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