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rutterkins

rutterkins is the plural of rutterkin.

Meaning of rutterkin

Noun

rutterkin (plural rutterkins)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete) An old crafty fox or beguiler.
    • what will become of the Doctrine , […] if ye play the rutterkin1579, J. T., transl., Sermons of M. Jean Calvin)

Questions about rutterkins

What is rutterkins the plural of?
Rutterkins is the plural of rutterkin.

Words near rutterkins in the dictionary

  1. ruttees
  2. Rutten
  3. Ruttens
  4. rutter
  5. rutterkin
  6. rutterkins
  7. rutters
  8. ruttier
  9. ruttiers
  10. ruttiest
  11. ruttily

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