ETYM French chauvinisme, from Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815.
Fanatical patriotism; SYN. jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism.
Aggressive patriotism; jingoism; implicit belief in the superior of one's own sex, group, etc.
Warlike, often unthinking patriotism, as exhibited by Nicholas Chauvin, one of Napoleon I’s veterans and his fanatical admirer. In the mid-20th century the expression male chauvinism was coined to mean an assumed superiority of the male sex over the female. + prikaži više

Blinkered, war-mongering patriotism. The term originated in 1878, when the British prime minister Disraeli developed a pro-Turkish policy, which nearly involved the UK in war with Russia. His supporters’ war song included the line “We don’t want to fight, but by jingo if we do ...”.