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squireens

squireens is the plural of squireen.

Meaning of 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

Questions about squireens

What is squireens the plural of?
Squireens is the plural of squireen.

Words near squireens in the dictionary

  1. squirearchy
  2. squired
  3. squiredom
  4. squiredoms
  5. squireen
  6. squireens
  7. squirefish
  8. squirehood
  9. squirehoods
  10. squireless
  11. squirelet

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