Meanings
noungod-bairn gift (plural god-bairn gifts)
plural god-bairn gifts
- obsoleteA gift for a grandchild
For they their god-bairn gifts wowld give, […]
1688 [c. 1583], Alexander Montgomerie, The Flyting Betwixt Polwart and Montgomery, page 23
Origin
From Scots.
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