Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Bum-bass
subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
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1809. S. PEGGE, Anonymiana, 415. The humble-bee ought rather, perhaps, to be called the bumble-bee as it is in some parts, from the deepness of the note, just as the violoncello is called by the vulgar a BUM-BASS.
