BULL’S eye. A crown-piece.
BULL’S feather. A horn: he wears
the bull’s feather; he
is a cuckold.
To bullock. To hector, bounce, or bully.
Bully. A cowardly fellow, who gives himself
airs of
great bravery. A bully huff cap;
a hector. See hector.
Bully back. A bully to a bawdy-house;
one who is
kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters
of the house to submit
to the impositions of the mother abbess,
or bawd; and
who also sometimes pretends to be the
husband of one of
the ladies, and under that pretence extorts
money from
greenhorns, or ignorant young men, whom
he finds with her.
See Greenhorn.
Bully cock. One who foments quarrels
in order to rob
the persons quarrelling.
Bully ruffians. Highwaymen who attack
passengers
with paths and imprecations.
Bully trap. A brave man with a mild
or effeminate
appearance, by whom bullies are frequently
taken in.
Bum. the breech, or backside.
To bum. To arrest a debtor. The
gill bummed the
swell for a thimble; the tradesman arrested
the
gentleman for a watch.
Bum trap. A sheriff’s officer
who arrests debtors.
Ware hawke! the bum traps are fly to our
panney; keep a
good look out, the bailiffs know where
our house is
situated.
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.
Bum brusher. A schoolmaster.
Bum boat. A boat attending ships to
retail greens,
drams, &c. commonly rowed by a woman;
a kind of
floating chandler’s shop,
Bum fodder. Soft paper for the necessary
house or
torchecul.
BUMFIDDLE. The backside, the breech. See ARS MUSICA.
BUMBO. Brandy, water, and sugar; also the negro
name for
the private parts of a woman.
Bumkin. A raw country fellow.
Bummed. Arrested.
Bumper. A full glass; in all likelihood
from its convexity
or bump at the top: some derive it
from a full glass
formerly drunk to the health of the pope—Au
Bon Pere.
Bumping. A ceremony performed on boys perambulating
the bounds of the parish on Whit-monday,
when they
have their posteriors bumped against the
stones marking
the boundaries, in order to fix them in
their memory.
Bun. A common name for a rabbit, also for
the monosyllable.
To touch bun for luck; a practice observed
among
sailors going on a cruize.


