squireen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of squireen
1800–10; squire + -een diminutive suffix < Irish -ín
Example Sentences
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He had been christened Edmund, and he was a squireen of the Tipperary village of Knockbrit.
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The letter was handed to the bench, and the chairman, looking doubtfully at his colleagues, requested our squireen to withdraw while his application was considered.
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The squireen's familiar manner of mentioning Doreen had stung her cousin, and filled him with a desire to warn her of the oaf's presumption.
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She, as chatelaines ought to be, was delighted to have a host of philanderers hanging about the Abbey, swilling its liquor, devouring its beef, while my lord deigned to make the squireen useful in a multitude of ways.
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What would be more likely to stimulate a coarse illiterate squireen than the aspect of such a living paradox as this?
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