machismo

First attested 1940, from American Spanish machismo, from Spanish macho (“male”), + suffix -ismo (“-ism”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑːˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/, /məˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈkɪz.məʊ/ (due to a mistaken idea that it comes from Italian)

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• Rhymes: -ɪzməʊ

machismo (usually uncountable, plural machismos)

1. (informal) An excessive masculine pride.
2. exaggerated masculinity
   • September 1971, Germaine Greer, "My Mailer Problem", in Esquire

     The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

3. characteristic, behavior or particularity of Male; Macheza.
4. (Latin American) male chauvinism, misogyny
   • 1979 April 7, Rebecca Chase, “PSP Supports Gay Rights”, in Gay Community News, page 1:

     PSP [Puerto Rican Socialist Party] spokesperson Victor Lopez-Tosado told GCN: " […] The party is mainly organized in a Latin American country where oppression, as a result of machismo, etc., to homosexuals is very common."

• machoism
• machoness

• femismo (rare)

• macho
• machoism
• machoistic
• machoistically

• braggadocio
• marianismo
• masculinism
• testeria

• machoism

From macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo.

• Rhymes: -izmo

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism

• machista
• macho

machismo m (plural machismi)

1. machismo

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish machismo.

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʂis.mɔ/
• Rhymes: -ismɔ
• Syllabification: ma‧chis‧mo

machismo n (indeclinable)

1. machismo (exaggerated masculinity)

• machismo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: ma‧chis‧mo

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, bigotry against women
2. machismo

• femismo

• machista
• macho

From macho (“male”) +‎ -ismo.

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡ʃismo/ [maˈt͡ʃiz.mo]
• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: ma‧chis‧mo

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism (a belief in the innate superiority of men over women)

   Antonym: hembrismo

• “machismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014