JINGOES

JINGO

chauvinist, jingoist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, patrioteer

(noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

jingoes

plural of jingo

Source: Wiktionary


JINGO

Jin"go, n.; pl. Jingoes. Etym: [Said to be a corruption of St. Gingoulph.]

1. A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo." Goldsmith.

2. A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs. [Cant, Eng.]

Note: This sense arose from a doggerel song which was popular during the Turco-Russian war of 1877 and 1878. The first two lines were as follows: -- We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do, We 've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've got the money too.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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