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Definition of Colonel Blimp

1. Noun. Any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low).

2. Noun. A pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low.

Definition of Colonel Blimp

1. Noun. (British) A stereotype of a pompous, ex-military middle-aged man, conservative and opposed to new ideas. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colonel Blimp

Colocasia Colocasia esculenta Cologne Cologne earth Colombia Colombian Colombian Sign Language Colombian crake Colombian crakes Colombian monetary unit

Colombian necktie Colombian peso Colombianism Colombians Colombo Colonel Blimp (current term) Colonel Blimps Colonel Sanders Colophonian Colophonians

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Literary usage of Colonel Blimp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"THE BEREAVEMENT OF Colonel Blimp By DAVID Low From the Listener, Weekly Organ of the British Broadcasting Corporation [Here is another of the Listener's ..."

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