Buckeen

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy. Ireland, historical

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From Irish boicín, the diminutive of boc. Equivalent to buck + -een.

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