What is "jingoes"

Jingo \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; a bellicose superpatriot or chavinist. [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.

n. (plural of jingo English)

See jingo

1. n. an extreme bellicose nationalist [syn: chauvinist, jingoist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, patrioteer]

2. [also: jingoes (pl)]