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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1932
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¶HUBBLEY-JOCK, n. A turkey-cock.Kcd. 1932 L. G. Gibbon Sunset Song (1937) 138:
Mrs Strachan reddened up at that, bubbling like a hubbley-jock, that wasn't the way for a quean to speak to a woman that might well be her mother.
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