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Squireen means (originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner..
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/skwaɪəˈɹiːn/ · noun
(originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner..
Probably no other country could produce such a degraded type as the squireen or buckeen, the drunken, gambling, profligate descendant of the Cromwellian or Williamite settler.
About 1730 the poet and squireen Huw Hughes wrote to the great scholar Lewis Morris that all the defenders of the old language had gone to sleep.
By blending entertainment and instruction, the Spectator taught ease and affability to squireens and tradesmen with time on their hands, money in their pockets but little breeding.
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Squireen means (originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner..
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Probably no other country could produce such a degraded type as the squireen or buckeen, the drunken, gambling, profligate descendant of the Cromwellian or Williamite settler.
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