Obadiah Bull
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Obadiah Bull
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Obadiah Bull is said to have been an Irish lawyer who lived and practised in London during the reign of Henry VII (1485–1509). His last name is supposed to have been the origin of the term "That's a Bull", for nonsense or a blunder made by an Irishman. He was known to make absurd, half-nonsensical statements that contradicted themselves. A type of Irish joke, an "Irish bull" is styled after these.
The term first occurs in a periodical, The British Apollo, in 1740. However the Oxford English Dict
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Possible Irish lawyer
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