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Jingoism

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The British war braggadocio; called Chauvinism in French; Spread-cagleism in the United States of North America. During the Russo Turkish War in 1877–1878 England was on the point of interfering, and at the music-halls a song became popular containing the following refrain:—

We donʹt want to fight; but, by Jingo, if we do,

Weʹve got the ships, weʹve got the men, and got the money too.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.