jingo

plural jingos · plural jingoes

1. One who supports policy favouring war.

   He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."

   1908, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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   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.

   "We are all jingoes now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."

   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