jingo

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"By the living jingo, here's the bag of gold on his breast!"

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  1. noun One who vociferously supports one's country, especially one who supports a belligerent foreign policy; a chauvinistic patriot.
  2. adjective Of or relating to a chauvinistic patriot.
  3. adjective Characterized by chauvinistic patriotism.
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  • It's appropriate, given the hall-of-mirrors quality (some would say "smoke and mirrors") of modern politics, that the term jingo should have begun life as a magicians incantation. —  The Word Detective
  • Those favoring a war with Russia (which was, fortunately, avoided) became known as the Jingoes , and the term jingo has ever since been a synonym for "a blustering, bellicose patriot." —  The Word Detective
  • The British jingo, the pious Christian pacifist, the member of an exclusive club, the mere "Labourite"; all these he had been (or imagined he had been), and all these he attacked in turn. —  Sidney Percival Bunting
  • That kind of jingo-lingo is what the Gipper rode to Washington on. —  Think Progress
  • By jingo, they can't say we ain't legal now! —  Police Your Planet
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  1. From the phrase by jingo, used in the refrain of a bellicose 19th-century English music-hall song, from alteration of Jesus1.

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  1. A name used in the oath “by jingo,” where jingo is prob. a form, introduced perhaps by gipsies or soldiers, of the Basque Jinkoa, Jainkoa, Jeinkoa, contracted forms of Jaungoicoa, Jangoikoa, God, literally ‘the lord of the high.’
 

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