🔤 Buckeen ✨

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🔊 Play Roman

chhota zamindar, ghareeb ameer, dikhawa karne wala adna ameer, adna raees

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buckeen

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DEFINITION

poor gentleman, petty squire, young man aspiring to fashionable status, minor landowner

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

The old buckeen tried to maintain the appearance of wealth even though his estate had fallen into serious decline. In the Irish countryside, a buckeen often held a small amount of land but lived beyond his means to impress neighbours. The novel describes a young buckeen who spent his limited income on fine clothes and horses instead of repairing his house. A buckeen could be seen riding through the village with great pride, pretending to belong to the higher gentry. The term buckeen was often used with mild mockery for those who imitated the manners of richer landowners.

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petty squire poor gentleman minor landowner small landowner

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wealthy landowner great lord rich noble powerful magnate