See squireen on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From squire + anglicized form of Irish -ín, diminutive suffix.", "forms": [ { "form": "squireens", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "squireen (plural squireens)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Irish English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1917, William Francis Thomas Butler, Confiscation in Irish history, page 248:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1983, Prys Morgan, “From a Death to a View”, in The Invention of Tradition:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1990, Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published 1991, page 234:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A minor squire; a small landowner." ], "id": "en-squireen-en-noun-mZFqgWb9", "links": [ [ "squire", "squire" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner." ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/skwaɪəˈɹiːn/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "enpr": "skwī-rēnʹ", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "ipa": "/skwaɪˈɹiːn/", "tags": [ "US" ] } ], "word": "squireen" }
{ "etymology_text": "From squire + anglicized form of Irish -ín, diminutive suffix.", "forms": [ { "form": "squireens", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "squireen (plural squireens)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Irish English", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1917, William Francis Thomas Butler, Confiscation in Irish history, page 248:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1983, Prys Morgan, “From a Death to a View”, in The Invention of Tradition:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1990, Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published 1991, page 234:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A minor squire; a small landowner." ], "links": [ [ "squire", "squire" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner." ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/skwaɪəˈɹiːn/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "enpr": "skwī-rēnʹ", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "ipa": "/skwaɪˈɹiːn/", "tags": [ "US" ] } ], "word": "squireen" }
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