gallopin
See also: Gallopin
English
Etymology
From French galopin. See gallop (intransitive verb).
Noun
gallopin (plural gallopins)
- (obsolete) An underservant in the kitchen; a scullion, or cook's errand boy.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gallopin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)