machismo

[mah-cheez-moh, -chiz-, muh-] /mɑˈtʃiz moʊ, -ˈtʃɪz-, mə-/
noun
1.
a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity.
2.
a strong or exaggerated sense of power or the right to dominate:
The military campaign was an exercise in national machismo.
Origin
1945-50, Americanism < Spanish see macho, -ism
Examples from the web for machismo
  • And dont stop there, do it to all the spineless punks who cant fight themselves,and use dogs to boost there machismo.
  • Spliced to an immature glorifying of war as some sort of machismo virtue.
  • The dunk is a declaration of power and dominance, of machismo.
  • With all that pounding over so many years, all the machismo is gone.
  • Anyone who hears that song as mere machismo misses a deeper reading of it.
  • machismo, personified in the tyrant or author, is deeply embedded in the culture.
  • They allow corporations to display technological machismo, wooing consumers to trust their cars and stereos.
  • Most disturbing today, is the machismo attached to disruptive innovation.
  • In a stunning display of amphibian machismo, tree frogs boogie before they brawl in this unprecedented video.
  • Because such a country is certain to value machismo over the nerdy qualities that actually win wars.
British Dictionary definitions for machismo

machismo

/mæˈkɪzməʊ; -ˈtʃɪz-/
noun
1.
exaggerated masculine pride
Word Origin
Mexican Spanish, from Spanish macho male, from Latin masculusmasculine
Word Origin and History for machismo
n.

1940, from American Spanish machismo, from Spanish macho "male" (see macho) + ismo (see -ism).

Slang definitions & phrases for machismo

machismo

noun

Aggressive masculinity; blatant virility: machismo, a he-man complex/ with Chicago machismo, also universal adolescent horniness

[1960s+; fr Spanish]