About The Word Jingo
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Jingo
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What's The Definition Of Jingo?
[n] an extreme bellicose nationalist
Synonyms | Synonyms for Jingo: chauvinist | flag-waver | hundred-percenter | jingoist Related Terms | Find terms related to Jingo: bigot | chauvin | chauvinist | doctrinaire | dogmatist | fanatic | flag waver | hard hat | hawk | hundred-percent American | hundred-percenter | illiberal | intolerant | jingoist | male chauvinist | militarist | nationalist | patriot | patrioteer | pig | racist | sexist | superpatriot | ultranationalist | war dog | war hawk | warmonger See Also | nationalist | patriot Jingo In Webster's Dictionary \Jin"go\, n.; pl. {Jingoes}. [Said to be a corruption of
St. Gingoulph.]
1. A word used as a jocular oath. ``By the living jingo.''
--Goldsmith.
2. A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive,
domineering policy in foreign affairs. [Cant, Eng.]
Note: This sense arose from a doggerel song which was popular
during the Turco-Russian war of 1877 and 1878. The
first two lines were as follows:
We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do, We
've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've got
the money too.
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