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The French pousse-cul seems to favour the notion that bum-bailiff is no corruption. These officers are frequently referred to as bums.
“Scout me for him at the corner of the orchard, like a bum-bailiff.”
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, iii. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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