Bull, John, a humorous impersonation of the collective English people, conceived of as well-fed, good-natured, honest-hearted, justice-loving, and plain-spoken; the designation is derived from Arbuthnot's satire, “The History of John Bull,” in which the Church of England figures as his mother.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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