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† ˈrutterkin Obs.
Also 6 -kyn(e, -kine, -king.
[f. rutter1 + -kin.]
A swaggering gallant or bully.
1526Skelton Magnyf. 757 Rutty bully, ioly rutterkyn. 1530Songs in Anglia XII. 593 When all is done this mynyon ys A rutterkyn. 1556Olde Antichrist 82 Those noble rutterkines of the churche, dyd more cruell feates than these. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osorius 397 The Romish Rutterkyne must call us backe to his filthy Cesternes.
attrib.1594O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. 2 b, The Rutterking Tailors of the old stampe. |