John Bull

(old-fashioned)

a character who represents a typical English man or the English people

Usage notes: This phrase comes from a book called The History of John Bull written by John Arbuthnot in 1712.

In the cartoon, John Bull appears as a short, stocky figure wearing a waistcoat with the British flag on.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Agam	-	Hebrew
Katherina	kath-ə-REE-nə (English), kə-THREE-nə (English), kah-te-REE-nah (German)	English (Rare), German
Zelda (2)	ZEL-də	English
Abd Al-Qadir	-	Arabic
Adcock	['ædkɔks]
Martha	MAHR-thə (English)	English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Biblical, Old Church Slavic, Biblical Lat