The office, rank, or position of being a bumbailiff; the practice of acting like an ineffective minor official.
Formed by combining 'bumbailiff' with the suffix '-ship' (indicating office or rank), a standard English formation for describing official positions.
The fact that someone coined 'bumbailiffship' shows Elizabethans had contempt for bad officials so intense they created a special word for the entire corrupt office itself.
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