Bairnless

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    childless Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, not-comparable

Etymology

From Middle English barnles, from Old English bearnlēas; equivalent to bairn + -less. Cognate with West Frisian bernleas (“childless”).

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