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单词 skip-kennel
释义 skip-kennel Obs.
[f. skip v.1 + kennel n.2]
One who has to jump or skip over the kennels or gutters; a lackey, a foot-boy, a footman. (Cf. skip n.1 3.)
1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 155 Yet every Draggle-Tail'd Wench, and Skip-kennel, shall be better us'd than We.c1680Roxb. Ball. VII. 18 A Mountebank with⁓out his fools, and a Skip-kennel turn'd out of place.1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 13. 63 It is peculiar to these learned head-pieces to shew more respect..to their skip-kennels, than to their students or fellows.1729Swift Direct Serv., Footman, You have no professed enemy but the rabble and my lady's waiting-woman, who are sometimes apt to call you skip-kennel.1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 39 The grid⁓iron whizzing, The skip-kennels quizzing.
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