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I like sports because I enjoy knowing that many of these macho athletes have to vomit before a big game. Any guy who would take a job where you gotta puke first is my kinda guy.
2017 September 4, “End ‘macho’ Brexit posturing, Anna Soubry urges May”, in The Guardian:
The government’s “bullish” and “macho” approach to Brexit should not stop Conservative backbenchers from tabling amendments to the crucial repeal bill, a leading Tory remainer has said.
2020 October 15, Francine Prose, “Trump's macho bravado is an embarrassment. Yet it puts us all in danger”, in The Guardian:
Joseph Biden has described Donald Trump’s refusal to wear a mask as “macho”, an insult unlikely to wound a president, who, before his illness, began rallies with speakers blasting the Village People’s 1979 song Macho Man.
“macho”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
1299, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 211:
Item mãdo ao moeſteyro de Santiago d Ermelo o meu quinõ das egóás que eu auya cũ Johan Martinz, o ffrade [...] os fillos que ſon machos que os vendan ſe quiſeren vender τ aſ egoas que fiquen cũ ſuas fillas femeas
Item, I bequeath my share of the mares that I have together with Xoán Martís, the friar, to the monastery of Santiago de Ermelo the sons which are males shall be sold if they wanted to, and the mares shall remain with their female daughters
Endemal! non falás rouco, mais eu à tanto desfacho, (como dixo ô ôutro) a macho que hè lerdo, arrieiro louco. Por moito que eu malle, hè pouco; que a quen do principio aò cabo, sin fazer caso do crabo, tàs peras tira meu frade, conven (xiquera à semade) que lle zorreguen ô rabo.
Alas! you don't speak rough, but I, to such impertinence, as they say, to dumb mule, mad muleteer. No matter how much I strike, is not enough; because to whom, beginning to end, not paying attention to the nail, your pears drop, my friar, it is advisable (at least summarily) that they whip their tail
“macho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“macho” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“macho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“macho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
When used as an adjective specifying that an animal is male, macho traditionally is invariable for both gender and number: el pollo macho "the male chicken", los pollos macho "the male chickens", la jirafa macho "the male giraffe", las jirafas macho "the male giraffes". However, some speakers use the form "machos" with plural agreement marked by adding the suffix -s to the adjective: los pollos machos, las jirafas machos.
To describe masculine women, other words such as marimacho and masculino are used. The feminine forms macha and machas are rare, but exist for sense 3.