Master of the Rolls
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The sense of a baker is a pun alluding to bread rolls.
Noun
[edit]Master of the Rolls (plural Masters of the Rolls)
- The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.
- (UK, slang, obsolete, humorous) A baker.
- 1828, George Cruikshank, The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, page 144:
- What do I care for lawyers! Aʼnt I a baker and Master of the Rolls myself: […]
References
[edit]- (baker): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary