What does jingo mean?
Jingo means One who supports policy favouring war..
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/ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊ/ · noun
One who supports policy favouring war..
1897 June 19, Carl Schurz, editorial: Armed or Unarmed Peace in Harper's Weekly, reprinted in 1913, Frederic Bancroft (editor), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo.
Spare me all the outrage and "pseudo jingo stuff" about Iran's imprisonment of our troops, said Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday.
He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
"We are all jingoes now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."
Use jingo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jingo means One who supports policy favouring war..
Common synonyms include jingoist, chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1897 June 19, Carl Schurz, editorial: Armed or Unarmed Peace in Harper's Weekly, reprinted in 1913, Frederic Bancroft (editor), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo.
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