chield

[ cheeld ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Scot.

Origin of chield¹

First recorded in 1525–35; variant of child

I ken a canny chield at Loughmaben, a bit writer lad, that will put me in the way to sort him.

I have been readin' o' what a clever doctor chield has accomplished i' Edinbro' by the pooer o' mind upon mind——'

I heard the voice of that lad Andrew Lammie; can the chield be drowning that he skirls sae uncannily?

But he stood in my road, and lifted his hand, and beckoned, like a chield az was used to be obeyed.

Even Alan Breck, by all that I hear, is a chield to be respected.

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