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Provided by the compucert bailiwick \BAY-luh-wik\, noun:
- A person's specific area of knowledge, authority, interest, skill, or work.
- The office or district of a bailiff.
Bailiwick comes from Middle English baillifwik, from baillif, "bailiff" (ultimately from Latin bajulus, "porter, carrier") + wik, "town," from Old English wic, from Latin vicus, "village."
- A bunch of bullshit; unsupported bullshit; a notion stated a fact.
Aww, thats haberdash if he says he can jump across that huge river in one bound.
Trivia
On TV's mob soap opera The Sopranos, what famous Hollywood figure plays Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, the psychiatrist treating mob boss Tony Soprano's shrink?
- Film director, Peter Bogdanovich.
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