squireenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /skwaɪəˈɹiːn/
• (米国発音) enPR: skwī-rēnʹ, IPA: /skwaɪˈɹiːn/
• 韻: -iːn

名詞

squireen (plural squireens)

1. (originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner.
   • 1917, William Francis Thomas Butler, Confiscation in Irish history, page 248:

     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.

   • 1983, Prys Morgan, “From a Death to a View”, in The Invention of Tradition:

     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.

   • 1990, Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published 1991, page 234:

     By blending entertainment and instruction, the Spectator taught ease and affability to squireens and tradesmen with time on their hands, money in their pockets but little breeding.

アナグラム

• enquires, inqueres