This character has given to the language the word bumbledom, the officious arrogance and bumptious conceit of a parish authority or petty dignitary.

Instead of realising that he is only one aspect of officialdom, we are all too apt to make him the type of all officials, and not an urban district council can get into a dispute about its electric light without being denounced as a Bumbledom by some whirling enemy or other.