Terms vs Bumtrap - What's the difference?
terms | bumtrap |
(obsolete, slang, rare) A bailiff.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 215:
As nouns the difference between terms and bumtrap
is that terms is while bumtrap is (obsolete|slang|rare) a bailiff.bumtrap
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
