chield
English
Alternative forms
- chiel, childe
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots chield, apparently a variant form of child retained in specific senses.
Noun
chield (plural chields)
- (Scotland) A man; a fellow, chap.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 196:
- Kinraddie fair seethed with the news next day, all about the attack on the Mill and how Rob had chased the childes that came up against him […].
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 196:
Anagrams
- chelid, childe
Scots
Alternative forms
- chiel, cheel
Etymology
Apparently a variant form of child.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃild/
Noun
chield (plural chields)
- child
- 1786, Robert Burns, Address To The Toothache:
- O thou grim, mischief-making chiel
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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- man, fellow, chap
- young woman