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squireen

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8 lettersPronunciation /skwaɪəˈɹiːn/Sorted eeinqrsuStarts with SEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A minor squire; a small landowner.

Word origin

From squire + anglicized form of Irish -ín, diminutive suffix.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • By blending entertainment and instruction, the Spectator taught ease and affability to squireens and tradesmen with time on their hands, money in their pockets but little breeding.

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