chauvinist
Americannoun
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a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
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a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a or a
Other Word Forms
- chauvinistic adjective
Etymology
Origin of chauvinist
First recorded in 1860–65; chauvin(ism) ( def. ) + -ist ( def. )
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Even the morbidly chauvinist NME succumbed, calling Ditto "the coolest person in rock".
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024
AP: A year later, you famously beat self-proclaimed chauvinist Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match viewed by millions on TV.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2022
What I recall most vividly aren’t details of the wildly hyped tennis match between Billie Jean King, 29, one of the world’s top female players, and former champion Bobby Riggs, a 55-year-old self-proclaimed male chauvinist.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
If she were a male chauvinist, she said, she would have continued living as a man.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2021
But this last alternative seems to me to be special pleading: I am, reluctantly, a self-confessed carbon chauvinist.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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