Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bouncing buffer n.

[London dial. bouncer, professional beggar + buffer n.3 ]

a beggar.

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[UK]B.M. Carew ‘The Oath of the Canting Crew’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 51: No ballad-basket, bouncing buffer, / Nor any other, will I suffer.