squireen

[ skwahy-reen ]

/ skwaɪˈrin /

the landowner of a small estate; a squire of a small domain.

Origin of squireen

1800–10; squire + -een diminutive suffix < Irish -ín

He had been christened Edmund, and he was a squireen of the Tipperary village of Knockbrit.

Superwomen |Albert Payson Terhune
The class of squireen is nearly extinct: 'Joy be with them.'

English As We Speak It in Ireland |P. W. Joyce
Sometimes you can hardly distinguish a squireen from a half-sir or from a shoneen.

English As We Speak It in Ireland |P. W. Joyce
Squireen′, a gentleman farmer, one almost a squire; Squire′hood, the state or rank of a squire—also Squire′ship.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) |Various

She looks higher, and she has a right to look higher than to be the wife of an Irish squireen.'

Lord Kilgobbin |Charles Lever

squireen

/ (skwaɪˈriːn) /

rare a petty squire

C19: from squire + -een, Anglo-Irish diminutive suffix, from Irish Gaelic -ín