chauvinist
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See also: Chauvinist
English
Etymology
See chauvinism.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
chauvinist (comparative more chauvinist, superlative most chauvinist)
- Pertaining to chauvinism.
- 2006, Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture:
- Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the "pornification" of other women […]
- (derogatory) Chauvinistic; excessively patriotic or heavily biased.
Derived terms
Translations
pertaining to chauvinism
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chauvinistic — see chauvinistic
Noun
chauvinist (plural chauvinists)
- (derogatory) A chauvinistic person.
- 2014, Sadegh Shajari, Chain Reaction and Chaos: Toward Modern Persia, page 28:
- Any one of the three corners could represent one of the three constituents of Iranian tri-polar culture—pan-Islamists, anti-Islam Persian chauvinists and Westernized Islamophobians.
Derived terms
Translations
chauvinist person
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Swedish
Noun
chauvinist c
Declension
Declension of chauvinist