male chauvinist pig

American  

noun

Slang.

1. male chauvinist.

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male chauvinist pig British  

noun

1.  MCP.  informal a man who exhibits male chauvinism

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Etymology

Origin of male chauvinist pig

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Before you can say “male chauvinist pig,” Risko is murdered in his own office.

From Los Angeles Times

That phrase "toxic masculinity" didn't exist then, but the phrase that did was, "male chauvinist pig."

From Salon

Merriam Webster Dictionary defines “male chauvinist pig” in a straightforward way, noting that the term means “a man who thinks women are not equal to men.”

From Washington Times

And, on a September night at the Astrodome in Houston, she epitomized her crusade for gender equality when she handily beat Bobby Riggs, a self-described male chauvinist pig, in the Battle of the Sexes.

From New York Times

What he revealed in them was more than the life of his times; he displayed himself in them, too, sometimes in brazenly unpleasant ways, as in his 1975 book “Women Are Beautiful,” which, in an audio clip included in the film, he thinks of subtitling “The Observations of a Male Chauvinist Pig,” and which sparked controversy at the time and, in the film, inspires trenchant discussions with the historians Shelley Rice and Erin O’Toole.

From The New Yorker

Related Words

• anti-feminist
• sexist