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chield en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots chield, apparently a variant form of child retained in specific senses.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) A man; a fellow, chap.
   • 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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 196:

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