Words that sound dirty but aren't.

It's a kind of fish.

A Native American word for a flying squirrel.

A legal term for forested land that has been cleared of trees for the purposes of agriculture.

A punishment involving getting beaten with a cane on the soles of your feet.

A type of Australian bird.

In his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Samuel Johnson described a bum-bailiff as "a bailiff of the meanest kind," and in particular, "one that is employed in arrests."

To bumfiddle means to pollute or spoil something, in particular by scribbling or drawing on a document to make it invalid. A bumfiddler is someone who does precisely that.