squireen
English
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: skwī-rēnʹ, IPA(key): /skwaɪˈɹiːn/
Noun
squireen (plural squireens)
- A person who is half squire, half farmer.
- Prys Morgan, The Invention of Tradition
- About 1730 the poet and squireen Huw Hughes wrote to the great scholar Lewis Morris that all the defenders of the old language had gone to sleep.
- William Francis Thomas Butler, Confiscation in Irish history, p.248
- Probably no other country could produce such a degraded type as the squireen or buckeen, the drunken, gambling, profligate descendant of the Cromwellian or Williamite settler.
- Prys Morgan, The Invention of Tradition