Definitions for jingoˈdʒɪŋ goʊ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

jin•goˈdʒɪŋ goʊ(n.)(pl.)-goes.

  1. a person who professes belligerent patriotism.

    Category: Western History

Origin of jingo:

from the phrase by Jingo in a political song supporting use of British forces against Russia in 1878

Princeton's WordNet

  1. chauvinist, jingoist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, patrioteer(noun)

    an extreme bellicose nationalist

Wiktionary

  1. jingo(Noun)

    One who supports policy favouring war.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Jingo(noun)

    a word used as a jocular oath

  2. Jingo(noun)

    a statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Jingo

    a name, of uncertain derivation, given to a political party favourable to an aggressive, menacing policy in foreign affairs, and first applied in 1877 to that political section in Great Britain which provoked the Turco-Russian war.


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