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machismo

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See also: Machismo

English

Etymology

First attested 1940, from American Spanish machismo, from Spanish macho (“male”), + suffix -ismo (“-ism”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /mɑːˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/, /məˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /məˈkɪz.məʊ/ (due to a mistaken idea that it comes from Italian)
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪzməʊ

Noun

machismo (usually uncountable, plural machismos)

  1. (informal) An excessive masculine pride.
  2. exaggerated masculinity
    • September 1971, Germaine Greer, "My Mailer Problem", in Esquire
      The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
  3. characteristic, behavior or particularity of Male; Macheza.
  4. (Latin American) male chauvinism, misogyny
    • 1979 April 7, Rebecca Chase, “PSP Supports Gay Rights”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
      PSP [Puerto Rican Socialist Party] spokesperson Victor Lopez-Tosado told GCN: " […] The party is mainly organized in a Latin American country where oppression, as a result of machismo, etc., to homosexuals is very common."
    • 2017, Sarah A. Topol, “Sons and Daughters”, in Harper's Magazine‎:
      The Dominican Republic is traditionally regarded as a patriarchal island brimming with machismo — where, indeed, a recent U.S. ambassador was publicly vilified for bringing his husband to his posting. It was, and is, an unlikely place to find an enclave of acceptance. So what explains this unique tolerance?

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Galician

Etymology

From macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈt͡ʃismo/ [maˈt͡ʃiz̺.mʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ismo

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

  1. male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism

Italian

Noun

machismo m (plural machismi)

  1. machismo

Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish machismo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈt͡ʂis.mɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ismɔ
  • Syllabification: ma‧chis‧mo

Noun

machismo n (indeclinable)

  1. machismo (exaggerated masculinity)
(noun):

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: ma‧chis‧mo

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

  1. male chauvinism, bigotry against women
  2. (by extension) sexism
  3. machismo

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Spanish

Etymology

From macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈt͡ʃismo/ [maˈt͡ʃiz.mo]
  • Rhymes: -ismo
  • Syllabification: ma‧chis‧mo

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

  1. male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism (a belief in the innate superiority of men over women)
    Antonym: hembrismo

Further reading

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