squireen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of squireen
1800–10; squire + -een diminutive suffix < Irish -ín
Example Sentences
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This Derriman was a squireen living near, who was chiefly distinguished in the present warlike time by having a nephew in the yeomanry.
From The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
Had, for instance, Economy changed with Generosity, and gone to the poor lieutenant's wife, and had I lodged with the Irish squireen instead of Hospitality, what misfortunes would have been saved to both!
From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
But the squireen was probably too full of his own self-importance to waste much thought or regret on an insignificant, unattractive girl, though she was his own child.
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
Since his marriage there was a great change in the rubicund squireen.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
Bernard Shute, who neither knew nor cared what the hounds were doing, was expatiating at great length to an uninterested squireen upon the virtues and perfections of his new mount.
From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
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