Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also bublie-cock) a turkey-cock, thus any turkey.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1786		Young Coalman’s Courtship 10: He looked as fierce as a lion [...] and his nose was like a bublie-cock’s neb, as blue as a blawit.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1822		Inverness Courier 3 Oct. 2/5: He is a Highland gentleman [...] let him put on his Tail, or personal escort, and strut about as a piper or a bubbly-jock.
1829		Life and Death of James Wilson 7: So Jamie marched up and down the kitchen [...] with his head up like a Peacock or a Bubbly-Jock.
1833		Mons. Merlin 6 July 4/5: ‘Is there naething, Jamie, that bothers you at a’?’ ‘Ou ay,’ said the idiot [...] ‘there’s a muckle Bubbly Jock that follows me wherever I gang’.
1839		Northern Liberator 2 Nov. 4/6: They obtained a small boat [...] a stock of pigs, geese, turkeys, hens, a bubbly jock, and three tom cats.
1843		Thackeray Irish Sketch Book I 279: He took but one glass of water to that intolerable deal of a bubbly jock... Three turkey-wings and a glass of water!
1853		R.S. Surtees Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour 145: My lord's gone—hem—to dine—cough—hem—with his—cough—friend Lord Bubbley Jock.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1866		T. Carlyle in Symons Selected Works and Reminiscences 553: The Bubbly Jock. On her road to school, when a very small child, she had to pass a gate where a horrid turkey-cock was generally standing. [...] The turkey ran at her as usual, gobbling and swelling; she suddenly darted at him and seized him by the throat and swung him round! The men clapped their hands, and shouted ‘Well, done, little Jeannie Welsh!’ and the Bubbly Jock never molested her again.
1876		Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly III 74: Stumpin’ offers amusement [...] but it doesn’t pay unless you get more than one brace of niggers and a bubbly-jock to listen.
1888		Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 185: Assuming an air of bellicosity that might have awed even a bubblyjock.
1894		Salt Lake Herald (UT) 14 Oct. 16/1: Ducks, peafowls, turkeys, the eagle was the master of them all. he had no trouble in finishing them off [...] even with the ‘bubbly jock’.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 2 Sept. 7/5: He strutted like a bubblyjock.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 485: (He gabbles gluttonously with turkey wattles.) Bubbly jock! Bubbly jock!
1927		Dundee Courier 17 Dec. 4/5: The damning fact conmfronts us on every meeting with the bubblyjack that he is a travesty of a peacock.
1938		Dundee Courier 24 Nov. 12/5: Bubbly-Jock Roastit, Stowed, an Buskit. Tatties an’ Neeps.

2. (also bubbly Tammy) a foolish braggart [implies a turkey’s characteristics, strutting and making too much noise].

1823		Proceedings of Jockey and Maggy 8: Wha’s thou gaun to get? It’s not auld bubly Tammy?
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 87: Bubbley-Jock or silly boasting fellow; a prig.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1882		G.A. Sala in Living London (1883) Mar. 113: Mr. Bunny is, to use a Scotticism, ‘sair owerhanded,’ not by a ‘bubbly jock,’ but by his wife’s aunt.
1886		Pall Mall Gazette 11 Feb. in Ware (1909) 113/1: The old dodo at Scotland Yard [...] yesterday converted itself by a tremendous effort into a gigantic turkey-cock, or, to use the much more expressive Scotch word, a great bubbly-jock which strutted and rattled and stamped and made its guttural gobble all over the metropolis yesterday with the most alarming result.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1908		Dundee Courier 12 June 4/2: A councillor who describes one colleague as a ‘bubbly jock’ and another as a ‘a coward’.

3. an excessive talker.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.