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jingo

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊ/US/ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊ/

jingo noun: one who supports policy favouring war.

Noun

jingo (plural jingos or jingoes)

  1. One who supports policy favouring war.
    • The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo.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
    • He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."1908, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

jingo meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

jingo in Tamil

ஆரவார நாட்டுப்பற்றாளர்

jingo in Urdu

جنگجووطن پرست

jingo in Bengali

সংগ্রামশীল দেশপ্রেমিক, বিস্ময়, সংগ্রামশীল দেশপ্রেম, অতিস্বদেশী মনোভাব

Examples of jingo in a sentence

  • "We are all jingoes now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head jingo is the Hon.1995, Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913:
  • Spare me all the outrage and "pseudo jingo stuff" about Iran's imprisonment of our troops, said Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday.2007, The Week, April 7, 2007, no. 608, p. 5

Forms of jingo

pluraljingos
pluraljingoes

Origin of jingo

From the minced oath by jingo, which was used in a music hall song, written ca. 1878 by G. W. Hunt, that supported Britain's then belligerent attitude towards Russia. In this context, a euphemism for Jesus, influenced by the meaningless presto-jingo used by conjurors. A connection with the Basque jainko (“god”) has been suggested, but evidence is lacking.

Words formed from jingo

Words that rhyme with jingo

Questions about jingo

What does jingo mean?
Jingo means one who supports policy favouring war.
What is jingo in Tamil?
Jingo in Tamil is ஆரவார நாட்டுப்பற்றாளர். See Jingo meaning in Tamil.
How do you use jingo in a sentence?
"We are all jingoes now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head jingo is the Hon.
What part of speech is jingo?
Jingo is a noun.
How do you pronounce jingo?
Jingo is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of jingo?
The plural of jingo is jingos.

Words near jingo in the dictionary

  1. jingly-jangly
  2. Jingmen
  3. jingmenvirus
  4. jingmenviruses
  5. Jingning
  6. jingo
  7. Jingodom
  8. jingoes
  9. jingoish
  10. jingoism
  11. jingoisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jingo (page history and authors); jingo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jingo (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jingo (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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