"bairnly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "bairn + -ly",
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          "ref": "1813, Allan Cunningham, “The Rosie Cheek”, in Songs: Chiefly in the Rural Language of Scotland, verse 3, page 50",
          "text": "Woman thour't but a bairnlie playke, / Wi' nought but beauty's blossom; / But, thour't a flow'r of heavenly pow'r, / Wi' pity in thy bosom:",
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          "ref": "1822, John Galt, chapter 5, in Sir Andrew Wylie, of That Ilk, volume 1, page 36",
          "text": "Andrew examined the wounded part, and declared it was just a flea bite. \"It's a wee red,\" said he, \"and before half an hour's bye ye'll ne'er fin't. Man, Charlie, it's bairnly to make sic a wark for a bit tig on the haffet […]\"",
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          "ref": "1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1905, page 301",
          "text": "\"So she will be, indeed!\" says Catriona. \"But I will never forgive her for all that. I will never, never forgive her, and let me hear tell of her no more.\"\n\"Well,\" said I, \"this beats all that ever came to my knowledge; and I wonder that you can indulge yourself in such bairnly whims. Here is a young lady that was the best friend in the world to the both of us, that learned us how to dress ourselves, and in a great manner how to behave, as anyone can see that knew us both before and after.\"",
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          "ref": "1894, Ian Maclaren, “A Wise Woman”, in Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush",
          "text": "There wes nae thocht worth mentionin', and onything he hed wes eked oot by repeetition. Tae sae naethin' o' bairnly stories.",
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          "ref": "1896, P[eter] Hay Hunter, James Inwick: Ploughman and Elder, pages 161–162",
          "text": "I canna tell ye hoo it was, but that was the kind o' feelin that cam ower we—that it wad be a bairnly-like thing, an' a cooardly-like thing forby, no' to gae in wi' the lave, an' record my vote eithor on the tae side or the tither. Ye can respec' a man wha taks the wrang side, sae lang as he believes it richt; but hoo can ye respec' a man wha refüses to tak ony side […]",
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        "Bairnlike; childish."
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        "(Scotland, rare) Bairnlike; childish."
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          "word": "infantile"
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          "word": "puerile"
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          "word": "childish"
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  "etymology_text": "bairn + -ly",
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          "ref": "1813, Allan Cunningham, “The Rosie Cheek”, in Songs: Chiefly in the Rural Language of Scotland, verse 3, page 50",
          "text": "Woman thour't but a bairnlie playke, / Wi' nought but beauty's blossom; / But, thour't a flow'r of heavenly pow'r, / Wi' pity in thy bosom:",
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          "ref": "1822, John Galt, chapter 5, in Sir Andrew Wylie, of That Ilk, volume 1, page 36",
          "text": "Andrew examined the wounded part, and declared it was just a flea bite. \"It's a wee red,\" said he, \"and before half an hour's bye ye'll ne'er fin't. Man, Charlie, it's bairnly to make sic a wark for a bit tig on the haffet […]\"",
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          "text": "\"So she will be, indeed!\" says Catriona. \"But I will never forgive her for all that. I will never, never forgive her, and let me hear tell of her no more.\"\n\"Well,\" said I, \"this beats all that ever came to my knowledge; and I wonder that you can indulge yourself in such bairnly whims. Here is a young lady that was the best friend in the world to the both of us, that learned us how to dress ourselves, and in a great manner how to behave, as anyone can see that knew us both before and after.\"",
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          "text": "I canna tell ye hoo it was, but that was the kind o' feelin that cam ower we—that it wad be a bairnly-like thing, an' a cooardly-like thing forby, no' to gae in wi' the lave, an' record my vote eithor on the tae side or the tither. Ye can respec' a man wha taks the wrang side, sae lang as he believes it richt; but hoo can ye respec' a man wha refüses to tak ony side […]",
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        "Bairnlike; childish."
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