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jingo

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted gijnoStarts with JEnds with O0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an extreme bellicose nationalist

Word origin

From the minced oath by jingo, which was used in a music hall song, written ca. 1878 by G. W. Hunt, that supported Britain's then belligerent attitude towards Russia. In this context, a euphemism for Jesus, influenced by the meaningless presto-jingo used by conjurors. A connection with the Basque jainko (“god”) has been suggested, but evidence is lacking.

Used in a sentence

  • He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
  • "We are all jingoes now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."
  • Spare me all the outrage and "pseudo jingo stuff" about Iran's imprisonment of our troops, said Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday.

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