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squireen - What does it mean?

Definition of 'squireen'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A person who is half squire, half farmer.
  • "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." - Prys Morgan, in "The Invention of Tradition"
  • Used by Graham in Poldark Novels freighted with contempt implying the objects of contempt were self-promoted or "jumped up".
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