单词 | squirelet |
释义 | squireletn. A petty squire or small landowner; a squireling. 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 1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. May 383/2 A Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and 'gigmanity'. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. xiii. 396 A man born poor: son of some poor Squirelet in the Ruppin Country. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 82 The little squirelets of the county would be proud to know him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1832 |
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