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The abbreviation esq. stands for esquire, which in terms of medieval levels of social ranking, indicated a person who is respectable, but not of the nobility.

In more modern usage, it is properly used after the name of a lawyer, though few lawyers today would do it. In the years around 1900, it was sort of a fad for any man who did not have to earn a living with a shovel to sign his name "John Smith, Esq." but it was soon seen as an affectation, and passed into history. Lawyers have the right to use it, but as noted - few ever do.

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it means that you're an arrogant s.o.b.

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esquire, after a name, is not a suffix.

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