Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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BAIRNISH, adj. Childish.m.Sc. [1838] A. Rodger Poems (1897) 129:
Strip aff, strip aff! your bairnish claes, And be a laddie like your brither.