† 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.)
| 1668 R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 155 Yet every Draggle-Tail'd Wench, and Skip-kennel, shall be better us'd than We. c 1680 Roxb. Ball. VII. 18 A Mountebank with⁓out his fools, and a Skip-kennel turn'd out of place. 1721 Amherst 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. 1729 Swift 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. 1828 Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 39 The grid⁓iron whizzing, The skip-kennels quizzing. |