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Machismo
//mɑːˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ// noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 An excessive masculine pride. informal, uncountable, usually
- 2 exaggerated masculinity wordnet
- 3 exaggerated masculinity uncountable, usually
"September 1971, Germaine Greer, "My Mailer Problem", in Esquire The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."
- 4 characteristic, behavior or particularity of Male; Macheza. uncountable, usually
- 5 male chauvinism, misogyny uncountable, usually
"PSP [Puerto Rican Socialist Party] spokesperson Victor Lopez-Tosado told GCN: "[…] The party is mainly organized in a Latin American country where oppression, as a result of machismo, etc., to homosexuals is very common.""
Etymology
First attested 1940, from American Spanish machismo, from Spanish macho (“male”), + suffix -ismo (“-ism”).
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