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▪ I. ‖ macho, n.1 U.S.|ˈmatʃo|
[Sp. macho mullet.]
The California mullet (see quot.).
1882Jordan & Gilbert Fishes N. Amer. (Bulletin U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 16) 403 Mugil mexicanus Steindachner. California Mullet; Macho..Pacific coast.
▪ II. ‖ macho, n.2 and a. orig. U.S.|ˈmatʃo, ˈmɑːtʃəʊ, -æ-|
[Mexican-Sp. macho, a male animal or plant; adj., masculine, vigorous.]
A. n. A man; spec. a ‘tough guy’; also, manliness, virility; an impression of this.
B. adj. Ostentatiously or notably manly and virile.
1928Nation 29 Feb. 233/2 The Machos (Americans) have taken El Chipote. Ibid. 11 Mar. 288/1 Here was I in their midst, a Macho Yankee Gringo, yet treated with consideration. 1951Sat. Rev. Lit. 22 Sept. 15/2 In the Continente, men were supposed to be machos—males—and the women were supposed to bear their children, besides keeping their houses, and awaiting with patience their returns from the beds of their mixed-breed mistresses, or the battlefield. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 19 Every American writer who takes himself to be both major and macho must sooner or later give a faena which borrows from the self-love of a Hemingway style. Ibid. 418 ‘Man, you can take care of yourself,’ he said with glee. ‘I don't know about that,’ I answered, obeying the formal minuet of the macho. 1964Punch 25 Mar. 444/1 A quality much prized in Mexico called macho, namely ‘masculinity, virility’. 1964S. Bellow Herzog 157 Provided that he remain macho she would listen with glistening eyes. Ibid. 186 A prince of the erotic Renaissance, in his macho garments. 1968T. Howard Black Light xix. 163 The medical practitioner had to salvage a little of that all-important Latin-American macho—or manliness. 1972Publishers' Weekly 23 Oct. 40/2 Reveals the macho of the sport for what it is: gridiron Darwinism, young athletes psyched out of their skulls. 1972New Yorker 2 Dec. 159/3 And so we have separate cultures—black-macho movies and white-macho movies, equally impoverished, equally debased. 1975Ibid. 14 July 65/1 She [sc. Greta Garbo] played opposite Clark Gable once, and the collision, though heated, didn't quite work; his macho directness—and opacity—reduced her from passionate goddess to passionate woman.
Add:[B.] 2. Special collocation: macho man colloq. (freq. derog.), a man characterized by (esp. exaggeratedly) assertive masculinity; (without article) this type of man; also attrib.
1976Soho Weekly News (N.Y.) 13 May 15/2 Their baked red necks, their roughness, ruggedness made city man look parboiled. If I had to pick or choose, the trucker won. The trucker was *macho man. 1984Steward & Garratt Signed, Sealed & Delivered iii. 73/1 She claims that the stereotype of the neanderthal, macho-man roadie is now way off the mark. 1989Guardian 21 July 8/4 Macho man spends Friday night in the pub, Saturday at the match, and thinks of his girlfriend or wife as ‘her indoors’. 1991Newsweek 9 Mar. (Canadian ed.) 33/1 Ironically, macho-man Bush is making a special play for middle-class Southern Republican women. |