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squireling|ˈskwaɪəlɪŋ|
[f. squire n.]
1. A petty squire; a squirelet.
1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 80 (1713) II. 242 Great Care is desired in the Matter, because the Squirelings need the Commodity [sc. wit] extreamly. 1843F. E. Paget Warden of Berkingholt 31 The very thing to suit the idle tastes of a shooting, boozing squireling. 1855Tennyson Maud i. xx. ii, Our ponderous squire will give A grand political dinner To half the squirelings near. 1886Sat. Rev. 11 Dec. 789 She succumbed to the blandishments of a pecunious squireling.
2. A young squire.
1834Tait's Mag. I. 439 The country squire..despatches his squireling to a neighbouring grammar-school. 1834New Monthly Mag. XLI. 327 The academic squireling would have been promenaded over half Europe. |