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单词 john bull
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John Bulln.

Brit. /ˌdʒɒn ˈbʊl/, U.S. /ˌdʒɑn ˈbʊl/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name John Bull.
Etymology: < the name of John Bull, a character representing the English nation in John Arbuthnot's satirical pamphlet Law is a Bottomless Pit (1712).Compare:1712 J. Arbuthnot (title) Law is a bottomless pit. Exemplify'd in the case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who spent all they had in a law-suit.1715 A. Pope Key to Lock 7 It has been their [sc. political writers'] Custom of late to vent their Political Spleen in Allegory and Fable. If an honest believing Nation is to be made a Jest of, we have a Story of John Bull and his Wife.
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a. A name given to the English nation personified. Sometimes more generally: a name given to Britain (or the United Kingdom) personified; cf. England n. 1a, and etymological note at that entry.The character John Bull is typically represented as a stout, red-faced farmer in a top hat and high boots.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun]
EngleeOE
EnglishOE
English-Saxona1387
Anglea1398
Southron1488
England1569
Anglo-Saxon1602
John Bull1748
Johnny Bull?1762
Southronya1795
Bull1825
Englishry1856
1748 D. Hume Let. 26 Mar. (1932) I. 121 Be assurd, there is not a finer Country in the World; nor are there any Signs of Poverty among the People. But John Bull's Prejudices are ridiculous; as his Insolence is intolerable.
1778 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 350 France..assisted the American cause, for which John Bull abused and fought her.
a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) ix. 374 A horse-race we met with near Chester-le-Street. This we could not resist, as some of us had never seen John Bull at his favourite amusement.
1899 J. Clifford in Daily News 3 Jan. 8/5 John Bull was now an Imperialist, and dwelt very much abroad.
1940 Daily Mail 24 July 6/1 Those who understand the British character a little better could tell the Germans that the only time John Bull is more resolute than when he is being bluffed is when he begins to pray and quote Scriptures.
2001 S. Walton You heard it through Grapevine iii. 60 John Bull..switched from drinking claret with his beef to port when France was the enemy.
b. As a count noun: an Englishman who exemplifies the supposedly typical national character; a typical English (or British) person, often one who is (strongly) patriotic.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England
EnglishmaneOE
EnglishOE
startc1438
Southron1488
Englander1610
knife-man1643
Englisher1652
southern1721
John Bull1772
Saxon1810
Sassenach1815
rosbif1826
Goddam1830
Angrezi1866
Angrez1877
Percy1916
Limey1918
woodbine1918
homie1926
kipper1946
1772 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 190 Both, like true John Bulls, fought with better will than justice for old England.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xlvii. 207 By some he was called..‘a thorough-bred Englishman’, by some ‘a genuine John Bull’.
1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel (1907) iii. 24 Mr Jellyband and his fellow John Bulls..were royalist and anti-revolutionists to a man.
2005 H. Hitchings Defining the World 225 By the standards of the period, Johnson was supereminent—a representative Englishman, the cynosure of British letters, a cultivated John Bull, the archetype of the sociable scholar.
2. A game in which players take turns to throw coins onto a board divided into sixteen numbered compartments, the number of the compartment on which a person's coin falls being added to his or her score. Obsolete. rare.
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1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 205 John Bull is the name of a modern pastime, which may be played in the open air, or in a room.

Compounds

General attributive.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adjective]
EnglisheOE
Southron1488
poke pudding1705
John Bull1787
Saxon1787
John Bullish1793
Hinglish1812
Angrezi1855
Angrez1896
1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Ode upon Ode 44 We Amateurs should, in a Fury, Just take it in our John-Bull Heads.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxxi. 40 Roast beef in our rough John Bull way.
2010 L. H. Campey Planters, Paupers, & Pioneers x. 283 Here was the John Bull spirit exemplified.

Derivatives

ˌJohn ˈBullish adj. typically English (or British) in nature, character, or behaviour; spec. characterized by extreme or aggressive patriotism.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adjective]
EnglisheOE
Southron1488
poke pudding1705
John Bull1787
Saxon1787
John Bullish1793
Hinglish1812
Angrezi1855
Angrez1896
1793 F. Burney Let. 19 Sept. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1973) III. 10 This is a prejudice certainly impertinent & very John Bullish.
1913 Bookman Nov. 218/1 When he wishes to be complimentary to an individual Englishman, he takes pains to emphasise the fact that the person in question is not at all John Bullish.
2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 28 Jan. 4 His John Bullish determination to do things his own way.
ˌJohn ˈBullishness n. the quality or state of embodying typical English (or British) characteristics; (later also) English patriotism, esp. of an exaggerated or aggressive kind.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > state or fact of being
Englishry1607
Englishness1804
Anglicity1823
John Bullishness1895
1895 Nation (N.Y.) 14 Nov. 345/3 The stolid John Bullishness with which England refuses arbitration of the whole question.
2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 21 Apr. 6 I think the reason why there is no outpouring of John Bullishness on this day is because of our very Englishness.
John Bullist n. [after John Bullism n.] Obsolete a partisan or admirer of England (or Britain), esp. one considered extreme in his or her views.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > England > person
Angloman1787
John Bullist1851
Anglophile1861
Anglophiliac1961
1851 J. H. Newman Lect. Present Position Catholics Eng. i. 25 Anglo-maniacs or John Bullists, as they are popularly termed.
1867 S. Austral. Reg. 2 Nov. One or two of the extreme John Bullists may have demurred to this as tending to perpetuate national distinctions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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