John Bull

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England or an Englishman

Origin: title character in John Arbuthnot's History of John Bull (1712)

See John Bull in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A personification of England or the English.
  2. A typical Englishman.

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Origin: After John Bull, a character in Law Is a Bottomless Pit by John Arbuthnot

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