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bairned

bairned is the simple past and past participle of bairn.

Meaning of bairn

Verb

bairn (third-person singular simple present bairns, present participle bairning, simple past and past participle bairned)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To get (someone) pregnant.
    • Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy.1992, Robin Jenkins, Happy for the Child, page 108

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Questions about bairned

What is bairned the simple past and past participle of?
Bairned is the simple past and past participle of bairn.

Words near bairned in the dictionary

  1. Baire spaces
  2. Bairi
  3. bairn
  4. bairn's part
  5. bairn-time
  6. bairned
  7. bairnhood
  8. bairning
  9. bairnish
  10. bairnless
  11. bairnliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bairned (page history and authors); bairn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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