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bairning

bairning is the present participle and gerund 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 bairning

What is bairning the present participle and gerund of?
Bairning is the present participle and gerund of bairn.

Words near bairning in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bairning (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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