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Bailiff vs Bumtrap - What's the difference?

bailiff | bumtrap |

As nouns the difference between bailiff and bumtrap

is that bailiff is a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed while bumtrap is a bailiff.

bailiff

English

(wikipedia bailiff)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) A legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed.
  • (British) The steward or overseer of an estate.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff , going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • (Channel Islands) The Chief Justice in each of the Channel Island bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, also serving as president of the legislature and having ceremonial and executive functions.
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    • Related terms

    * bailie * bailiwick

    bumtrap

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, slang, rare) A bailiff.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 215:
    • The noble bumtrap , blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey.