squireen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of squireen
1800–10; squire + -een diminutive suffix < Irish -ín
Example Sentences
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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 Hall, Thornton
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
Why should you take it for granted that I am a narrow squireen?
From The Devil's Paw by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
He looked like a Herefordshire squireen gentleman, while Harry Lewin, with his Irish chivalry and his Oxford confidence, looked like a cosmopolitan and a man of society.
From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Allen, Grant
My lord was not certain whether to be offended with the squireen or not.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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