squireen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of squireen
1800–10; squire + -een diminutive suffix < Irish -ín
Example Sentences
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She had been in love with Roddy Lambert, a showy, handsome, selfish squireen, before he married for money.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
But it wasn't at all, fur Nora had an owld squireen av a father, that was as full av maneness as eggs is av mate.
From Irish Wonders by McAnally, D. R. (David Russell)
And when next they met, the pot-valiant squireen would chuckle proudly, "Faith, yon was a night."
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
What would be more likely to stimulate a coarse illiterate squireen than the aspect of such a living paradox as this?
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
Why should you take it for granted that I am a narrow squireen?
From The Devil's Paw by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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