machoish

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1. alternativeAlternative form of macho-ish.

   “And who am I, Sydney?” / “Ashleigh. Guitarist.” / “Derek here,” a machoish boy joined in. “Think The Sox will win?”

   2012 September 19, Ia Uaro, “We Like Your Accent”, in Sydney’s Song, [Port Melbourne, Vic.]: Trojan Press, published January 2013, →ISBN, page 239

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   Certainly there are other changes as well; God becomes more universal instead of being mostly a tribal god, he becomes more transcendent and doesn't guide history as actively, more of a neo-platonic philosophical entity than the machoish Lord and Judge of deutero-Isaiah, and so forth.

   1994 May 20, Antti A Lahelma, “Witchcraft”, in soc.religion.christian (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025

   [R]etired U.S. Army Colonel Charles Beckwith (the first commander of the U.S. military’s secret “Delta” counterterrorist force and the man who lead the attempt to free U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979) testified that yes, he sometimes glanced at the personal-service ads, but no, he “didn’t pay a lot of attention” to them. “You read one of these, it sounds so machoish, it just—it didn’t make my heart beat fast so I’d go on to something else that did.”

   1994 September, James William Gibson, “Have Gun, Will Travel: Hit Men, Mercenaries, and Racist Groups Join the New War”, in Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America, New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, →ISBN, part III (War Zone America), pages 200–201

   Anyway, it’s like South City, modern machoish punk that might appeal to a baseball cap, snowboarding, SUV driving type of crowd, I don’t friggin’ know…

   1999 April, Rema Young, “Cell Block 5 – ‘King of Crowns’ CD”, in Maximum Rocknroll, number 191, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, Music Reviews, column 1