squireen

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /skwaɪəˈɹiːn/
  • (US) enPR: skwī-rēnʹ, IPA(key): /skwaɪˈɹiːn/

Noun

squireen (plural squireens)

  1. A person who is half squire, half farmer.
    • Prys Morgan, The Invention of Tradition
      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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