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An amusing rogue, a sort of Tyll Eulenspiegel. A character in Marston’s comedy of The Dutch Courtesan. He cheats Mrs. Mulligrub, a vintner’s wife, of a goblet and salmon.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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