squireen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of squireen
1800–10; squire + -een diminutive suffix < Irish -ín
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
Mr Gillooly, I may remark, was a friend of my grandfather’s, a squireen, with a mansion of similar description to Rincurran Castle, though somewhat less dilapidated.
From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Archibald Webb
The game had been played successfully and was over—the squireen of Knebworth, the self-styled descendant of the Vikings, had founded a family and hooked a peerage.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
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
Sometimes I would ride to Castle Dargan, where lived a brawling squireen, married to one of my Middleton cousins, and once I went thither on a visit with my cousin George Middleton.
From Reveries over Childhood and Youth by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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