see quots.; also Bumfiddler.
c. 1560. Trag. Rich. II. (1870), 42. To say I will teare this paper … or fowler words than that, as to say I will bumfidle your paper.
1611. Davies, Scourge Folly, in Wright, Dict. Obs. & Prov. Eng. A busie-body hardly she abides; Yet she’s well-pleased with all bumfidlers.
1618. Fletcher, Chances, I. vi. And am I now bumfidl’d with a Bastard?
1815. Southey, Lett. (1856), II. 399. [An ode] too good to be fiddled; so I sent them a second, which was fit to be bum-fiddled.
