'Jingo' definitions:
Definition of 'jingo'
From: WordNet
noun
An extreme bellicose nationalist [syn: chauvinist, jingoist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, patrioteer]
Definition of 'Jingo'
From: GCIDE
- Jingo \Jin"go\, n.; pl. Jingoes. [Said to be a corruption of St. Gingoulph.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo." --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs; a bellicose superpatriot or chavinist. [Cant, Eng.] [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 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: [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'jingo'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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