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John Bull

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
John Bull

▶noun a personification of England or the typical Englishman.

– origin C18: a character in John Arbuthnot's satire Law is a Bottomless Pit; or, the History of John Bull (1712).

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