Word of the Day

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5

Bailiwick

[bay-li-wik]Part of speech: noun

Origin: middle english, 15th century

• A bailiff's jurisdiction
• A person's specific area of skill, knowledge, or ability

Examples of Bailiwick in a sentence

• Criminals who find themselves tried in his bailiwick can expect stern courtroom rules.
• I'm a novice at science, but literature is my bailiwick.

Although romance and seduction were considered Solo's bailiwick, sometimes Illya got the girl.

About Bailiwick

Bailiwick has been in use in English since the 15th century, but only in the 1800s did it begin to be used to describe a person's area of expertise or study. A biology professor would most definitely be an expert on the classification of mammals.

Did you Know?

We use bailiff to describe something very specific today — the official who oversees the security of a courtroom. But in Middle English, it referred to the sheriff of a town or region, and their bailiwick was their area of jurisdiction.

Comments

[pfrye.livejournal.com]

Mr. Waverly drank his hot tea, honey and lemon, always a good thing to drink when one was afflicted with a common cold. He needed to return to work. The world was UNCLE's bailiwick and he wasn't about to abandon the world just because of a cold...No matter what the missus said!

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Illya Kuryakin was skilled in many things, but his ability to disappear behind his many disguises was his bailiwick.