"squireen" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /skwaɪəˈɹiːn/ [UK], /skwaɪˈɹiːn/ [US] Forms: squireens [plural]
enPR: skwī-rēnʹ [US] Etymology: From squire + anglicized form of Irish -ín, diminutive suffix. Head templates: {{en-noun}} squireen (plural squireens)
  1. (originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner.
    Sense id: en-squireen-en-noun-mZFqgWb9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Irish English

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From squire + anglicized form of Irish -ín, diminutive suffix.",
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          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
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        {
          "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.",
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        "(originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner."
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          "ref": "1990, Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published 1991, page 234",
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