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"You'll rue this, MacNicoll," fumed the Provost -- as red as a bubblyjock at the face -- mopping with a napkin at his neck in a sweat of annoyance;
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
garyth123 commented on the word bubblyjock
I know it sounds like it should mean a tearful Scotsman, but in fact it means a turkey.
December 27, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word bubblyjock
The turkey-cock. Also polliecock. The Scots term bubbly = "snotty". Perhaps, as Dr. Jamieson noted in his Scottish Dictionary, "the name seems to have originated from the shape of his comb, which has considerable resemblance to the snot collected at a dirty child's nose."
May 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word bubblyjock
A particularly nasty fungal infection, similar to crotch rot. Henry VIII suffered from this a lot during his later years.
October 28, 2011
Durvin commented on the word bubblyjock
From "The American Slang Dictionary" by James Maitland, 1891: "Bubbly Jock (Scotch), a turkey, from the noise it makes."
November 11, 2014