John Bull
noun
England; the English people.
John Bullism
-
a word derived from
John Bull.
Example Sentences
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If they are not, it is not because their separate characteristics have been absorbed by John Bullism.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
Little Britain may truly be called the heart's core of the city; the stronghold of true John Bullism.
From Little Britain by Washington Irving
Little Britain may truly be called the heart's core of the city, the stronghold of true John Bullism.
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
If your old uncle did give you an occasional specimen of true John Bullism, he has left you an honourable title and a valuable estate.
From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
Yet truly my heart warms to nothing so much as to a row of fat English cabbages which grow in the rectory garden, with a complacent, self-asserting John Bullism about them.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
