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A Random Word From the ArchivesWant another word? Refresh this pagePermanent link for this word: john_bull1 A.Word.A.Day--John BullPronunciation: WAV or RealAudioJohn Bull (jon bul) noun 1. A personification of England or the English people. 2. A typical Englishman. [After John Bull, a character in John Arbuthnot's satire, Law Is a Bottomless Pit (1712).] "Current historiography on the Mandate period is no longer dominated by a demonization of the British, which was a recurrent theme during the first decades of the state. Yet the disintegration of the old mythology is no reason to create a new mythology, this one a fantasy of John Bull in Palestine as a kind of disoriented Santa Claus, as in Segev's skewed account." Anita Shapira, Eyeless in Zion, The New Republic, Dec 11, 2000.
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