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A cowardly, bragging captain, a sort of Bobʹadil (q.v.). (Beaumont and Fletcher: A King and no King.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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