Meanings
- uncountableThe realm, sphere, or world of the macho; those who are macho, taken collectively
A foodie, domestic male is not a figure emasculated, but rather one of privilege, spared the humiliations and injurious defeats of machodom.
2008, Ritch Calvin, Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity1 more example
These boys are cast as heroes of American machodom, and machodom has a problem with gender. Perhaps because it is as ignorant as a post, machodom does not realize that armies and navies and sports teams from Achilles and Patroclus through Nelson's navy to the Gulf War have been built on homoeroticism.
1999, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Crossing
Origin
From macho + -dom. Compare German Machotum (“machismo”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
machodom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/machodom
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