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Patriotism that's been drinking and wants to fight someone outside.
means Aggressive, chest-thumping nationalism that pushes for war or hostility toward other countries, dressed up as patriotic pride.
from Comes from the phrase 'by jingo,' a minced oath (a polite stand-in for something stronger, like swearing 'by Jesus' without quite saying it) that was already floating around English speech. It got politicized in an 1870s British music-hall song supporting war against Russia, with the chorus boasting 'we don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do...' The crowd-pleasing bluster of that song gave the critics of such attitudes a ready-made label, and 'jingoism' stuck as the word for patriotism spoiling for a fight.
- origin
- from an 1878 British music-hall song, not Latin
- the lyric
- by jingo, we've got the ships, the men, the money too
- key tell
- loves the country, hates thinking about it
- cousin
- patriotism's angrier, less self-aware sibling