subs. phr. (old Scotch).—1. A turkey-cock; a ‘gobbler.’
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. BUBBLY JOCK, (Scotch) A turkey cock.
1843. THACKERAY, The Irish Sketch-Book, xv. He took but one glass of water to that intolerable deal of BUBBLY JOCK.… Three turkey-wings and a glass of water.
1877. BESANT and RICE, This Son of Vulcan, II., xviii. Puffing his cheeks like some infuriated BUBBLY JOCK in a stable-yard.
2. (common).—A stupid braggart.
3. (popular).—A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow; a prig; a cad.
1883. G. A. SALA, Living London, 113. Mr. Benjamin Bunny (Mr. J. L. Toole) is the good-natured husband of a pretty young wife (Miss Winifred Emery). Mr. Bunny is, to use a Scotticism, ‘sair owerhanded,’ not by a ‘BUBBLY JOCK,’ but by his wife’s aunt.
THE BUBBLY JOCKS, subs. phr. (military).
