buckeen
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 7
Definition of buckeen
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Ireland, historical)a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy.
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Irish boicín, the diminutive of boc. Equivalent to buck + -een.
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