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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Scottish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1992, Robin Jenkins, Happy for the Child, page 108",
"text": "Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make pregnant."
],
"links": [
[
"pregnant",
"pregnant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, Scotland) To make pregnant."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bern/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɛrn/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛəʁn/",
"note": "Northumberland, North Durham, rhotic"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛəɹn/",
"note": "UK, rhotic"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛən/",
"note": "UK, non-rhotic"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛːn/",
"note": "UK, non-rhotic"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛɚn/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"Ireland",
"US",
"West-Country"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbaːn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛə(ɹ)n"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛːn"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aːn"
},
{
"audio": "Eng-bairn-rhoScot.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/Eng-bairn-rhoScot.ogg/Eng-bairn-rhoScot.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Eng-bairn-rhoScot.ogg",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"text": "Audio (Scotland)"
}
],
"word": "bairn"
}
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