macho

Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæt͡ʃ.əʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃəʊ, -ɑːtʃəʊ

macho (comparative more macho, superlative most macho)

1. (informal) Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.

   macho culture

   • 1997, George Carlin, “SPORTS ROUNDUP”, in Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 56:

     I like sports because I enjoy knowing that many of these macho athletes have to vomit before a big game. Any guy who would take a job where you gotta puke first is my kinda guy.

   • 2017 September 4, “End ‘macho’ Brexit posturing, Anna Soubry urges May”, in The Guardian‎:

     The government’s “bullish” and “macho” approach to Brexit should not stop Conservative backbenchers from tabling amendments to the crucial repeal bill, a leading Tory remainer has said.

   • 2020 October 15, Francine Prose, “Trump's macho bravado is an embarrassment. Yet it puts us all in danger”, in The Guardian‎:

     Joseph Biden has described Donald Trump’s refusal to wear a mask as “macho”, an insult unlikely to wound a president, who, before his illness, began rallies with speakers blasting the Village People’s 1979 song Macho Man.

macho (plural machos)

1. A macho person; a man who is masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.

   Synonyms: macho man; see also Thesaurus:hypermasculine man

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:effeminate man

   • 1978, “Macho Man”, performed by Village People:

     You can tell a macho, he has a funky walk / His western shirts and leather, always look so boss

2. Machismo
   • 1980 August 30, Jil Clark, quoting Bob Andrews, “Gays Talk About Registration and the Draft”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:

     […] about how the military is anti-gay and uses intimidation and peer pressure. How it promotes a sense of false macho and patriotism.

   • 1981, Frank Rector, The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals, page 33:

     Though there was plentiful evidence to the contrary that should have made plain to him the hairy masculine macho of German gays, Hitler's stereotyped image perceived them as woman-like, surrendering, and therefore essentially weak.

3. The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).
4. A male llama.

   Coordinate term: hembra

• machismo

• masculinist

• Mocha, mocha

Borrowed from Spanish macho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.tʃoː/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧cho

macho (comparative meer macho, superlative meest macho)

1. macho (pertaining to machismo)

• machoman

macho m (plural macho's)

1. A macho male.

From Spanish macho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑtʃo/, [ˈmɑ̝t̪ʃo̞]

macho (comparative machompi, superlative machoin)

1. macho

macho

1. macho

• “macho”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Borrowed from Spanish macho, from Latin masculus. Doublet of mâle.

• IPA^(key): /mat.ʃo/

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macho m (plural machos)

1. One who is excessively or aggressively masculine or misogynistic; a chauvinist

   Synonym: machiste

• machisme
• machiste

• “macho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• chôma

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡ʃo/ [ˈma̠.t͡ʃʊ]

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• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Hyphenation: ma‧cho

Attested from the 13th century. From Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”). Cognate with Spanish macho and Portuguese macho.

macho m or f (plural machos)

1. male

macho m (plural machos)

1. male
   • 1299, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 211:

     Item mãdo ao moeſteyro de Santiago d Ermelo o meu quinõ das egóás que eu auya cũ Johan Martinz, o ffrade [...] os fillos que ſon machos que os vendan ſe quiſeren vender τ aſ egoas que fiquen cũ ſuas fillas femeas

     Item, I bequeath my share of the mares that I have together with Xoán Martís, the friar, to the monastery of Santiago de Ermelo [...] the sons which are males shall be sold if they [the monks] wanted to, and the mares shall remain with their female daughters

   Coordinate term: femia

2. stud
3. mule
   • c. 1771, anonymous, Rosario Álvarez, Ernesto González, editors, Décima xiringatoria‎:

     Endemal! non falás rouco,
     mais eu à tanto desfacho,
     (como dixo ô ôutro) a macho
     que hè lerdo, arrieiro louco.
     Por moito que eu malle, hè pouco;
     que a quen do principio aò cabo,
     sin fazer caso do crabo,
     tàs peras tira meu frade,
     conven (xiquera à semade)
     que lle zorreguen ô rabo.

     Alas! you don't speak rough,
     but I, to such impertinence,
     as they say, to dumb mule,
     mad muleteer.
     No matter how much I strike, is not enough;
     because to whom, beginning to end,
     not paying attention to the nail,
     your pears drop, my friar,
     it is advisable (at least summarily)
     that they whip their tail

4. piece which enters into another

• machismo
• machista

• masculino

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], probably from Latin marculus (“hammer”), a diminutive of marcus.[1]

macho m (plural machos)

1. (regional) rammer

• “macho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “macho” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “macho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “macho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “macho” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Spanish macho. Doublet of maschio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʃo/
• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Hyphenation: mà‧cho

macho (invariable)

1. macho

macho m (invariable)

1. macho

• macho in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• macho in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• macho in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• macho in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• macho in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• macho in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• macho in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish macho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ʂɔ/
• Rhymes: -at͡ʂɔ
• Syllabification: ma‧cho
• Homophone: matcho

macho m pers (indeclinable)

1. macho (macho person)

• macho in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• macho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese macho, from Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”), from mās (“male, man”), -culus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of másculo.

• Rhymes: -aʃu, (Northern Portugal) -at͡ʃu
• Hyphenation: ma‧cho

macho (feminine macha, masculine plural machos, feminine plural machas)

1. male (belonging or referring to the sex having the smaller gametes)

   Synonym: masculino

   Coordinate terms: fêmeo, feminino

   Os pássaros machos tendem a ser mais coloridos.

   Male birds tend to be more colorful.

2. macho; manly

   Synonyms: másculo, varonil, viril

   Antonyms: bicha, cagão, covarde, marica, mulherzinha

3. male (of instruments or tools: designed to fit into or penetrate a “female” counterpart)

macho m (plural machos)

1. male

   Coordinate term: fêmea

2. macho; manly man

   Antonyms: bicha, cagão, covarde, marica, mulherzinha

3. (informal) man (especially in relationship-related contexts)

• Kabuverdianu: matchu

• “macho” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “macho” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “macho” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “macho” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “macho” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “macho” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Spanish macho or French macho.

macho m (plural macho)

1. macho

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡ʃo/ [ˈma.t͡ʃo]

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• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Syllabification: ma‧cho

Inherited from Old Spanish maslo, itself from Vulgar Latin māsclus, contracted form of Latin māsculus (“male”). Doublet of másculo.

macho (feminine macha, masculine plural machos, feminine plural machas)

1. male
2. strong, brave
3. (Costa Rica) blond, blonde

   Synonym: rubio

• When used as an adjective specifying that an animal is male, macho traditionally is invariable for both gender and number: el pollo macho "the male chicken", los pollos macho "the male chickens", la jirafa macho "the male giraffe", las jirafas macho "the male giraffes".[1] However, some speakers use the form "machos" with plural agreement marked by adding the suffix -s to the adjective: los pollos machos, las jirafas machos.

• To describe masculine women, other words such as marimacho and masculino are used. The feminine forms macha and machas are rare, but exist for sense 3.

macho m (plural machos)

1. male

   Coordinate term: hembra

2. (slang, Spain) dude

Two alternative theories are:

• From Latin marculus (“hammer”), a diminutive of marcus, itself related to the base of malleus.
• Variant of mazo (“club”).

macho m (plural machos)

1. sledgehammer
2. anvil

macho m (plural machos, feminine macha, feminine plural machas)

1. (Costa Rica) person with blond hair

   Synonym: rubio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

macho

1. first-person singular present indicative of machar

• “macho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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macho

1. plural of jicho

macho (comparative mer macho, superlative mest macho)

1. macho

Uninflected.

macho c

1. a macho (macho person)

• karlakarl

• macho in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• macho in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)