Squeers, Wack‧ford /skwɪəz $ skwɪərz, ˈwækfəd $ -ərd/
a character in the book Nicholas Nickleby (1838) by Charles Dickens. He is the head teacher of a school called Dotheboys Hall, and he treats the children there very cruelly.

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