subs. (Irish).—1. A bully (GROSE).
2. (Irish).—A young man of the poorer aristocracy; a SQUIREEN (q.v.).
1809–12. EDGEWORTH, The Absentee, VII. There were several squireens or little squires, a race of men who have succeeded to the BUCKEENS described by Young and Crumpe. Ibid., Love and Law. The spalpeen! turned into a BUCKEEN, that would be a squireen, but can’t.
