squireling

squire·ling

[skwahyuhr-ling]
noun
1.
a landowner of a small estate.
2.
a petty squire.

Origin:
1675–85; squire + -ling1

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squireen or squireling (skwaɪˈriːn, ˈskwaɪəlɪŋ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
rare a petty squire
 
[C19: from squire + -een, Anglo-Irish diminutive suffix, from Irish Gaelic -ín]
 
squireling or squireling
 
n
 
[C19: from squire + -een, Anglo-Irish diminutive suffix, from Irish Gaelic -ín]

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Squireling is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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