Meanings
nounbumtrap (plural bumtraps)
plural bumtraps
- obsoleterareslangA bailiff.
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.
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 215
Origin
From bum (“bumbailiff”) + trap.
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