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单词 skip-kennel
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skip-kenneln.

Etymology: < skip v.1 + kennel n.2
Obsolete.
One who has to jump or skip over the kennels or gutters; a lackey, a foot-boy, a footman. (Cf. skip n.1 3.)
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > footman
footmanc1405
foot knavea1425
lackey1512
lacket1523
staffier1532
outrunner1598
fore-footman1610
skip-kennel1668
fart-catcher1785
carriage man1857
1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 155 Yet every Draggle-Tail'd Wench, and Skip-kennel, shall be better us'd than We.
c1680 in Roxburghe Ballads VII. 18 A Mountebank with~out his fools, and a Skip-kennel turn'd out of place.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 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.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 47 You have no profest Enemy except the Rabble, and my Lady's Waiting-woman, who are sometimes apt to call you Skipkennel.
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 39 The grid~iron whizzing, The skip-kennels quizzing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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