squireen

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English

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /skwaɪəˈɹiːn/
  • 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)

  1. 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.

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