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bummaree|bʌməˈriː|
Also 8–9 bomaree, 9 bumbaree, bommeree.
[Origin unknown. Cf. bummery.]
1. A middleman in the fish trade at Billingsgate.
[1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4330/7 Run away..a Negro Boy..called Hermitage or Bumaree.] 1786Rep. Committee of City of Lond. on Price Provisions 31 The Bomarees will buy up half the fish the Salesmen have, and sell to the Fish⁓mongers. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 67 In Billingsgate the ‘forestallers’ or middlemen are known as ‘bummarees’..The bummarree is the jobber or speculator on the fish-exchange. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 17 Stands are erected at different parts of the market for ‘bumbarees’.
2. Also bummeree. A licensed porter at Smithfield meat-market in London. Also attrib.
1954Meat Marketing 29 Sept. 44/1 There are adequate bummeree or middle porters already. 1955Times 1 Dec. 7/6 A ‘test case’ as to whether or not a retail butcher was entitled to remove meat purchased at Smithfield Market by himself or his full-time employees, or whether he had to employ porters known as ‘bummarees’. 1968M. C. Borer England's Markets 19 There are about a hundred and thirty ‘bummarees’ at Smithfield, and they are all self-employed.
Hence bummaˈreeing vbl. n. The acting as a bummaree.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock 21 The process of bumbareeing is very simple. |