squireen

Noun

squireen (plural squireens)

1. A minor squire; a small landowner.
   • 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
   • 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.1983, Prys Morgan, “From a Death to a View”, in The Invention of Tradition