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chauvinist

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, from French chauviniste , from Chauvin (see chauvinism ). Related: Chauvinistic (1870).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind an extreme bellicose nationalist [syn: jingoist , jingo , flag-waver , hundred-percenter , patrioteer ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES male chauvinist pig (= an insulting name for a male chauvinist ) (male) chauvinist pig (= a man who thinks women are not equal to men ) male chauvinist ▪ I’m afraid Bill’s a bit of a male chauvinist. COLLOCATIONS FROM ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context pejorative English) chauvinistic. n. (context pejorative English) A chauvinistic person.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chauvinism \Chau"vin*ism\, n. [F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831).] Blind and absurd ...

Usage examples of chauvinist.

She had mounted an unrelenting attack on the antiabortionists and had crucified in debate those male chauvinists who without personal risk tried to legislate what women might do with their bodies.

If science fiction readers had remained almost entirely masculine--even had the acne cleared up and the youth withered--I think science fiction would have remained male chauvinist in the crudest possible way.

You are what was known in the latter twentieth century as a male chauvinist pig V' Morgan's thumb and index finger followed the line of his thick mustache.

I said, had you been the one transported into the twentieth century, you would be a classic male chauvinist pig.

Not that I was a common or garden male chauvinist, of course, even before I changed-we northern scum don't always conform to stereotype.

If science fiction readers had remained almost entirely masculine--even had the acne cleared up and the youth withered--I think science fiction would have remained male chauvinist in the crudest possible way.

He supposed he was a male chauvinist because he'd never been convinced that women could be equal to men on the police force.

I could almost feel sorry for what's-er-nameAngelotrying to convince a bunch of middle-aged male chauvinists that a Gothic novel by an unknown woman writer is worth that much.

And by the standards of those super-male chauvinists, the Greek philosophers, earth could only be considered feminine passive, acted upon instead of active.

She probably spent a lot of time defending her abilities to the various rednecks and chauvinists she encountered.

There were problems, to be sure: malcontents, injury collectors, bureaucrats (dull but useful for keeping records), fascists, reformers, assorted chauvinists and bigots.

She told me it was her big chance and I had to be the most insensitive male chauvinist oinker in the United States to be dragging my feet, and furthermore she'd had it with California anyway.

I had forgotten that Mrs Justice Appelby sat in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice, and her Ladyship was known as the only genuine male chauvinist pig in the building.

Secondly, they engender jingoist and chauvinist attitudes, sometimes to quite an extreme degree.

He was too busy implementing his newest fund-raising scheme, the Male Chauvinist Organization (MACHO), which he hoped would milk mucho denaros from Russ Meyers, illegal abortionists, pimps, industrialists who regularly paid female workers thirty percent of the salaries of men doing the same jobs, and all others threatened by the Women's Liberation Movement.