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- noun The quality of being
macho ;machismo .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But it would be better if your company did something to make the environment less hostile to women. darwi: I never really experienced much "machoness", but that was probably because I was in the biosciences in which there are a lot more women.
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What possible reason could there be, was he trying to impress the clerk with his 'machoness', his reverent zionism, or was it just plain stupidity?
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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In the lead-up to the 2008 Republican primary, Fred Thompson was touted as a breath of fresh air because of his straight talk and machoness.
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto: Rick Perry: Fred Thompson and Barry Goldwater's Lovechild Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto 2011
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The blueprint for these types of ‘movies’: tough guy [The Rock or Vin Diesel] is use to kicking butt [cut to scenes of machoness ie. sports/combat].
Watch The Rock's 'Tooth Fairy' trailer, then 'fess up. Will you sit through it? | EW.com 2009
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Instead she chose the Spanish translation that has a much more vulgar connotation AND adds on the culturally stereotypical element of machoness.
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Lt. Pantano (ret.) has written a book about his machoness in killing two Iraqis and hanging a sign over their heads.
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Cattiness is forgiveable in a woman, but it's just extra ugly in a man, just like excessive fistfighting and machoness is extra ugly when done by a woman.
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Rainer also goes on and talks about slasher films and modern masculinity but he never mentions once is women and how this retro machoness and acceptable and exulted warrior behavior effects women.
December 10, 2007 Melissa Silverstein 2007
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Rainer also goes on and talks about slasher films and modern masculinity but he never mentions once is women and how this retro machoness and acceptable and exulted warrior behavior effects women.
Archive 2007-12-09 Melissa Silverstein 2007
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I don't care why they feel that Guy Gardner must be a GL, but it's sad that they hold a grudge against two-fisted machoness.
WARRIOR #34 DC Comics, 1995 David Campbell 2006
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