Jarvie (Baillie Nicol).
A Glasgow magistrate in Scott’s Rob Roy. He is petulant, conceited, purse-proud, without tact, and intensely prejudiced, but sincere and kind-hearted.
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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.