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Jingo
Jin′go
,Noun.
pl.
Jingoes
(#)
. [Said to be a corruption of St.
Gingoulph
.] 1.
A word used as a jocular oath.
“By the living jingo.” Goldsmith.
☞ This sense arose from a doggerel song which was popular during the Turco-Russian war of 1877 and 1878. The first two lines were as follows: –
We don’t want to fight, but by
We 've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've got the money too.
Jingo
if we do,We 've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've got the money too.
Definition 2024
jingo
jingo
English
Noun
jingo (plural jingoes)
- 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.
- 1908, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy,
- He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
- 1995, Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913,
- "We are all jingoes now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."
- 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,
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- Spare me all the outrage and "pseudo jingo stuff" about Iran's imprisonment of our troops, said Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday. – Iran frees sailors, The Week, 7 April 2007, Issue 608, page 5.