machismo

Etymology

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

noun

  1. exaggerated masculinity
    September 1971, Germaine Greer, "My Mailer Problem", in Esquire The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

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