Drawcansir

So popular was the play that "Drawcansir" passed into a synonime for a braggadocio.

Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

And upon this I pray you to remark, that I am a person of singular delicacy and modesty, instead of being the Drawcansir and Daredevil that you would make of me.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

While we were supping with our Drawcansir friend, we heard the notes of a guitar, and the click of castanets, and presently a chorus of voices singing a popular air.

The Alhambra 2002

While we were supping with our Drawcansir friend, we heard the notes of a guitar, and the click of castanets, and presently a chorus of voices singing a popular air.

The Alhambra 2002

It must be confessed, the redoubted Mr. Buckley [226] has shed as much blood as the former; but I cannot forbear saying (and I hope it will not look like envy) that we regard our brother Buckley as a Drawcansir, [227] who spares neither friend nor foe, but generally kills as many of his own side as the enemy's.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

Pasquin-Drawcansir to be performed by his Censorial Highness, for his

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

"At your service, Major," cried the Captain, a dashing, black-a-vised personage, with large gold rings in his ears, a plume a yard long in his castor, and a general Drawcansir air.

Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

[287.3] Mr. Dobson ( "Fielding," page 67) says: "He [Cibber] called him, either in allusion to his stature, or his pseudonym in the Champion, a 'Herculean Satyrist,' a 'Drawcansir in Wit.'"

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

This Drawcansir in Wit, 287.3 that spared neither Friend nor Foe! who to make his Poetical Fame immortal, like another Erostratus, set Fire to his Stage by writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

Indeed the Artaban of _Cléopatre_ is much more the original of Almanzor and Drawcansir than anything in Madeleine, though

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889