squirelingn.
/ˈskwʌɪəlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈskwaɪ(ə)rlɪŋ/ 1. A petty squire; a squirelet.
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squireling1682
cock-laird1721
squireen1812
squirelet1832
squiret1838
1682 Heraclitus Ridens 8 Aug. 2/2 Great care is desired in the matter, because the Squirelings need the Commodity [sc. wit] extreamly.
1843 F. E. Paget Warden of Berkingholt 31 The very thing to suit the idle tastes of a shooting, boozing squireling.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xix. ii, in Maud & Other Poems 63 Our ponderous squire will give A grand political dinner To half the squirelings near.
1886 Sat. Rev. 11 Dec. 789 She succumbed to the blandishments of a pecunious squireling.
2. A young squire.
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squireling1834
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 439 The country squire..despatches his squireling to a neighbouring grammar-school.
1834 New Monthly Mag. 41 327 The academic squireling would have been promenaded over half Europe.
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