单词 | rutterkin |
释义 | rutterkinn. Now historical. rare. A swaggering gallant or bully. Also attributive.Also found in some 17th cent. descriptions of witches' practices as the name of a cat or familiar. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person jettera1400 flirdom?a1500 facerc1500 termagant1508 rutterkina1529 bellomy1535 bystour1535 roister1549 swash1549 rush-buckler1551 roisterkin1553 swashbuckler1560 dash-buckler1567 swinge-buckler?1577 whiffler1581 huff-snuff1582 swish-swash1582 fixnet1583 swag1588 swasher?1589 kill-cow1590 roister-doister1592 dagger1597 flaunting Fabian1598 tisty-tosty1598 huff-cap1600 swaggerer1600 burgullian1601 huff-muff1602 tear-cat1606 blusterer1609 wag-feather1611 wind-cutter1611 bilbo-lorda1625 tearer1633 cacafuegoa1640 bravado1643 Hector1655 scaramouch1662 swashado1663 huffer1664 bluster-mastera1670 Drawcansir1672 bully huff1673 huff1674 belswagger1680 valienton1681 blunderbuss1685 Draw can bully1698 bouncer1764 Bobadil1771 bounce1819 pistol1828 sacripant1829 hufty1847 bucko1883 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ci v Rutty bully Ioly rutterkyn. 1530 Songs in Anglia (1889) 12 593 When all is done this mynyon ys A rutterkyn. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 82 Those noble rutterkines of the churche, dyd more cruell feates than these. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 114/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I This roysting rutterkin, wholy then standing on the Soldado hoigh. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 397 The Romish Rutterkyne must call us backe to his filthy Cesternes. 1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 2 b The Rutterking Tailors of the old stampe. 1823 F. Henniker Notes during Visit Egypt 178 Mine host whispered to me dolefully that the roisting rutterkin was a common soldier who had come with an order for his pay. 1998 G. Hill Triumph of Love (2000) xxviii. 16 So he draws them among us, slouch-feathered, shin-booted, jangle of sloven-worn iron: ruyter, ritterkind, rutterkin, over the low shrub hill—hoyda! hoyda!—heel-kicking their nags. 2007 D. Bevington in P. Happé & W. Hüsken Interludes & Early Mod. Soc. 377 Rutterkins are swaggering gallants or bullies, like German rutters or cavalry soldiers, but applied especially in the Renaissance to Roman Catholic priests and popes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1529 |
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