jingo
noun
a person who professes their patriotism loudly and excessively, favoring vigilant preparedness for war and an aggressive foreign policy; bellicose chauvinist.
jingoes
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pluralof jingo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus I have always been against the pacifists during the quarrel, and against the jingoes at its close..
From Time Magazine Archive
In one laconic sentence the German Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, last week set a temporary limit to German war aims and gave Japanese jingoes an encouraging pinch in the backside.
From Time Magazine Archive
U. S. jingoes predicted that Britain would send warships to guard her people in Nicaragua the instant the U. S. withdrew, Monroe Doctrine or no Monroe Doctrine.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Fleet must have opened the eyes of any foreign jingoes who supposed that they might send over with impunity their battleships and attack our ports.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer
