Bailywick

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  • bailiwick: the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff; the term literally means "bailiff's village" → and more generally the proper limmits of an authority (e.g. a professor's bailiwick) which they may not extend beyond He calmly extensolies
  • to Bailywick → to east
  • bally: a euphemism for bloody
  • Baile Wicklow: "Baile" is Irish for "town"; Wicklow is a town in Ireland to the southeast of Dublin (though the Irish name of Wicklow is Cill Mhantáin)