rump-and-kidney men n.
fiddlers who play for weddings, feasts, fairs and similar festivities.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Rump-and-Kidney-Men c. Fidlers that Play at Feasts, Fairs, Weddings, &c. And Live chiefly on the Remnants, of Victual. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |