Sc. Obs. [? ad. F. estafette: see ESTAFETTE.] ? A groom, lackey; perh. only a vague term of abuse.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lx. 17. Stuffettis, strekouris, and stafische strummellis.
1550. Lyndesay, Tragedy, 373. Bot not to rebaldis new cum frome the roste: Nor of ane stuffat stollin out of ane stabyll.
