Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal)A stepchild.

Origin

From Middle English stepbarn (“orphan”), from Old English stēopbearn (“orphan”), from Prot

From Middle English stepbarn (“orphan”), from Old English stēopbearn (“orphan”), from Proto-West Germanic *steupabarn, from Proto-Germanic *steupabarną (“stepchild”), equivalent to step- + bairn. Cognate with Old High German stiofbarn (“stepchild”), Norwegian stebarn (“stepchild”) Danish stedbarn (“stepchild”), Swedish styvbarn (“stepchild”), Icelandic stjúpbarn (“stepchild”).

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Forms

plural: stepbairns

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stenographerstenographystepA2stepchildstepdaughterstepfatherB2stepmom
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