buckeen

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

buckeens plural

词源

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