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Mr Punch
a. (The name of) the grotesque hook-nosed humpbacked principal character in the puppet show now known as a Punch and Judy show (cf. sense 1c); the puppet representing this character. Also Mr Punch.
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1681–2 D. Browne in G. Keynes Lett. Sir T. B. (1946) 245 Your Tomy..is in great expechtion of a Tumbler you must send him for his popet show, a punch hee has and his wife.
1707 Diverting Muse 157 Here are Punch and his Wife, So perform'd to the Life.
1730 H. Fielding Author's Farce (ed. 2) ii. i. 24 Punch and his Wife Joan, to be perform'd by living Figures..beginning exactly at Seven a Clock.
1733 J. Swift On Poetry 18 Some famed for Numbers soft and smooth, By Lovers spoke in Punch's Booth.
1763 G. A. Stevens Dramatic Hist. Master Edward ii. 134 The chastity of taste among English audiences at that time was so pure, they would not bear the smallest innovation.., even in Mr. Punch.
1779 C. Dibdin Mirror in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 504 Can't you see by my hunch, sir,..I am master Punch, sir.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor i, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 4 Remaining behind the curtain unseen, like the ingenious manager of Punch and his wife Joan.
1880 Proc. Musical Assoc. (6th Sess., 1879–80) 46 Even a parrot, or Mr. Punch, in speaking will produce a's, and o's, and e's.
1942 S. de Hempsey How to do Punch & Judy 86 Amongst the professional Punch and Judy performers the gadget for the Punch voice is popularly known as a ‘Swazzle’.
1985 Daily Tel. 12 Oct. 14/3 ‘That's the way to do it!’ is Punch's oft-repeated cry as baby, Judy, Policeman, Doctor and Jack Ketch, the hangman, successively are knocked over the head with his stick.
2003 Evening Standard (Nexis) 28 Apr. 13 ‘Shall I hit her?’ Mr Punch asked them, brandishing a stick over the head of his vexatious wife.
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