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Definition of Bumbeiliff - Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
BUM BAILIFF. A sheriff's officer, who arrests debtors; so
called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their bums, or, as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a-ses. Blackstone says, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour. - The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
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