Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A diminutive of rutter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete, derogatory An old crafty fox or beguiler.

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  • Wikipedia says a rutterkin is a kind of demon in dungeons and dragons.

    Spinneyhead 2008

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  • A swaggering gallant or bully. (according to OED, which only has 16th-century quotations for it)

    An old crafty fox or beguiler – a word of contempt. (Webster 1913)

    July 10, 2008