squireenn.

Brit.

/ˌskwʌɪ(ə)ˈriːn/, U.S.

/ˌskwaɪ(ə)ˈrin/, Irish English

/ˈskwaɪriːn/

Etymology: < squire n. + -een, Irish Gaelic -ín diminutive suffix.

A petty squire; a small landowner or country gentleman. The first group of quots. illustrates the original Irish usage.

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squireling1682

cock-laird1721

squireen1812

squirelet1832

squiret1838

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > squire or laird > petty squire > in Ireland

squireen1812

(a)

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee vii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 67 Squireens are persons, who, with good long leases, or valuable farms, possess incomes from three to eight hundred a year; who keep a pack of hounds, take out a commission of the peace.

1825 J. G. Lockhart in W. Scott Familiar Lett. (1894) II. 297 Warned by a Mr. Hutcheson (apparently a squireen) not to travel on the Drogheda road after 7 p.m.

a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 421 I would no longer be a slave to any squireen of them all.

1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 314 The ‘half-sirs’ or ‘squireens’, a class peculiar to Ireland, are, I believe, unknown now.

attributive.1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley x, in Dublin Univ. Mag. May 526/2 There were scores of squireen gentry.(b)1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 264 A young lout of a squireen took yesterday, with worms,..thirty pound of trout in one rapid.1878 tr. A. Dumas Three Musketeers ii A reserve of courage, wit, and shrewdness, which often makes a Gascon squireen better off than the richest gentleman of other provinces.1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village 67 Hunting, shooting, coursing, and sometimes fishing are enjoyed by most of these squireens.

Derivatives

squiˈreeness n. a female squireen.

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > squire or laird > petty squire > female

squireeness1872

1872 Contemp. Rev. 20 106 Can we not endeavour to dissociate the Irish nation from those Hibernian squireens and squireenesses?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	squireen
释义	squireenn. Brit. /ˌskwʌɪ(ə)ˈriːn/, U.S. /ˌskwaɪ(ə)ˈrin/, Irish English /ˈskwaɪriːn/ Etymology: < squire n. + -een, Irish Gaelic -ín diminutive suffix. A petty squire; a small landowner or country gentleman. The first group of quots. illustrates the original Irish usage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > squire or laird > petty squire squireling1682 cock-laird1721 squireen1812 squirelet1832 squiret1838 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > squire or laird > petty squire > in Ireland squireen1812 (a) 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee vii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 67 Squireens are persons, who, with good long leases, or valuable farms, possess incomes from three to eight hundred a year; who keep a pack of hounds, take out a commission of the peace. 1825 J. G. Lockhart in W. Scott Familiar Lett. (1894) II. 297 Warned by a Mr. Hutcheson (apparently a squireen) not to travel on the Drogheda road after 7 p.m. a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 421 I would no longer be a slave to any squireen of them all. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 314 The ‘half-sirs’ or ‘squireens’, a class peculiar to Ireland, are, I believe, unknown now. attributive.1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley x, in Dublin Univ. Mag. May 526/2 There were scores of squireen gentry.(b)1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 264 A young lout of a squireen took yesterday, with worms,..thirty pound of trout in one rapid.1878 tr. A. Dumas Three Musketeers ii A reserve of courage, wit, and shrewdness, which often makes a Gascon squireen better off than the richest gentleman of other provinces.1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village 67 Hunting, shooting, coursing, and sometimes fishing are enjoyed by most of these squireens. Derivatives squiˈreeness n. a female squireen. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > squire or laird > petty squire > female squireeness1872 1872 Contemp. Rev. 20 106 Can we not endeavour to dissociate the Irish nation from those Hibernian squireens and squireenesses? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1812
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