Wean

Definitions

1. A locality in the Gunnedah council area and the Narrabri council area, northern New South Wales, Australia.
2. A young child.
   Scotland

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Examples

“I, being but a yearling wean.”

“And there were darker tales in the countryside, of weans stolen, of lassies misguided, of innocent beasts cruelly tortured, and in one and all there came in the name⟳ of the wife of the Skerburnfoot.”

“‘While I was his ward, he treated me no worse as a wean about the place⟳ than one of his own⟳ boys.’”

“Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw. Oh it is not weans it is children. Oh Kieron, it is children and girls, do not say⟳ weans and lasses.”

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