John Bull
noun
England; the English people.
John Bullish
-
a word derived from
John Bull.
Example Sentences
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Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency.
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"For the first time," says Paul Rogers, who plays Bottom in a blustering, John Bullish vein, "a Shakespearean movie has been made that doesn't sacrifice the poet."
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He had aged, of course, but Winston Churchill seemed hardly a shade less pink-cheeked, rocklike and John Bullish than when he spoke before the House and Senate during World War II.
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John Bull, feeling that John Bullish Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was going to win the election anyhow, puffed his pipe at home while the flesh & blood candidate around the corner sulked.
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The writer has heard this John Bullish effusion before now, and what was better, seen it generously and justly acted upon.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
