BUMBAILIFF


Meaning of BUMBAILIFF in English

|bəm|bālə̇f noun

( -s )

Etymology: bum (I) + bailiff; from his close pursuit of debtors

Britain : bailiff — usually used contemptuously

a confounded, pettifogging bumbailiff — W.M.Thackeray

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