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buckeens

buckeens is the plural of buckeen.

Meaning of buckeen

Noun

buckeen (plural buckeens)

  1. (Ireland, historical) a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy.
    • Probably no other country could produce such a degraded type as the squireen or buckeen, the drunken, gambling, profligate descendant of the Cromwellian or Williamite settler.1917, William Francis Thomas Butler, Confiscation in Irish history, page 248

Questions about buckeens

What is buckeens the plural of?
Buckeens is the plural of buckeen.

Words near buckeens in the dictionary

  1. bucked the trend
  2. bucked up
  3. bucked up one's ideas
  4. bucked up to
  5. buckeen
  6. buckeens
  7. Buckelew
  8. Buckelews
  9. Buckenbowra
  10. Buckenderra
  11. Buckendoon

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