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单词 macho
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machon.1

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish macho.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < Spanish macho (very rare, regional, or obsolete) mullet, which may be a sense development of Spanish macho mule (c1450; probably < Portuguese muacho , ultimately < classical Latin mūlus mule n.1 and Portuguese -acho , augmentative/pejorative suffix): perhaps compare the homonymy of French mulet mule (see mule n.1) and mulet mullet (see mullet n.1). N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (mā·tʃo) /ˈmaːtʃəʊ/.
U.S. Obsolete.
The striped mullet, Mugil cephalus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Mugiloidei (mullets) > family Mugilidae > genus Mugil > member of (mullet)
mullet1393
mugila1398
mowel?a1500
harder1658
springer1700
kanae1820
calipeva1832
pudding-ball1847
macho1882
1882 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 16. 403 Mugil mexicanus Steindachner. California Mullet; Macho..Pacific coast.
1896 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47. 811 Common mullet; striped mullet; céfalo; macho.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

machon.2adj.

Brit. /ˈmatʃəʊ/, /ˈmɑːtʃəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɑtʃoʊ/, /ˈmætʃoʊ/
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish macho.
Etymology: < Spanish macho masculine, male (adjective or noun) (the pejorative sense may have originated in Anglophone usage: compare machismo n.) < classical Latin masculus male adj.Use in sense A. 2 has been criticized in usage guides. A pronunciation /ˈmakəʊ/ is also attested rarely in the late 20th cent.: compare note s.v. machismo n.
Originally U.S.
A. n.2
1. A man; spec. a notably or ostentatiously masculine, tough, or vigorous man; one who is aggressively proud of his masculinity.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man
manc1330
real man1872
he-man1885
man's mana1896
virilist1910
cocksman1916
macho1943
Marlboro Man1957
macho man1959
man1963
1924 Christian Sci. Monitor 2 Dec. 24/5 One of the most amusing of Latin-American epithets for the citizen of the United States, namely, ‘macho’, which means originally a male mule.]
1943 Hispania May 167 The instinctive tendency of the Latin American to desire to prove his manliness, to establish himself as a macho.
1951 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 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.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 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.
1991 P. Kussi tr. M. Kundera Immortality vii. ii. 334 I've been reading..a marvelous biography of Hemingway. What a fraud... What a macho.
2. = machismo n.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man > quality of
virility1890
machismo1941
macho1964
machoism1979
machohood1987
1964 Punch 25 Mar. 444/1 A quality much prized in Mexico called macho, namely ‘masculinity, virility’.
1972 Publishers Weekly 23 Oct. 40/2 Reveals the macho of the sport for what it is: gridiron Darwinism, young athletes psyched out of their skulls.
1991 Entertainm. Weekly 14 June 41/2 For these three hapless baby boomers, becoming cowboys is a reverie of soulful macho.
B. adj.
Ostentatiously or notably manly or virile; assertively masculine or tough; producing an impression of manliness or toughness.Originally of people; now also applied to actions, qualities, things, etc.
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the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > virile man
boysy1921
he-mannish1924
macho1949
macho man1959
studly1966
1949 Amer. Anthropologist 51 603 While women..tend to admire a man who is macho, or very manly, they describe the ‘good’ husband as one who is..not too domineering.
1959 N. 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.
1964 S. Bellow Herzog 186 A prince of the erotic Renaissance, in his macho garments.
1975 New Yorker 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.
1986 Indexer 15 65 All those hi-tech bleeps..tell the executive he is doing something big and macho.
1994 Interzone June 62/1 Aubrey Knight, a gung-ho and macho entrepreneur who has seen the opportunity..to make a large fortune organizing the rebuilding..of an earthquake-wrecked section of the city.

Compounds

macho man n. colloquial (freq. depreciative) a man characterized by (esp. exaggeratedly) assertive masculinity; (without article) this type of man.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man
manc1330
real man1872
he-man1885
man's mana1896
virilist1910
cocksman1916
macho1943
Marlboro Man1957
macho man1959
man1963
the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > virile man
boysy1921
he-mannish1924
macho1949
macho man1959
studly1966
1959 R. Hill et al. Family & Population Control iv. 104 The interesting combination that these macho men want less children and have less children, and..put great importance on masculinity and virility.
1976 Soho 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.
1984 S. Steward & S. Garratt Signed, Sealed & Delivered iii. 73/1 She claims that the stereotype of the neanderthal, macho-man roadie is now way off the mark.
1991 Newsweek (Canadian ed.) 9 Mar. 33/1 Ironically, macho-man Bush is making a special play for middle-class Southern Republican women.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

MACHOn.3

Brit. /ˈmatʃəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɑtʃoʊ/, /ˈmætʃoʊ/
Forms: 1900s– MACHO, 1900s– macho.
Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English Massive Compact Halo Object.
Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of Massive Compact Halo Object, by contrast with the subatomic WIMP n.4 (Occasionally considered to be an acronym < the initial letters of Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Object : compare quot. 1991.)
Astronomy.
A relatively dark, dense object, such as a brown dwarf, a low-mass star, or a black hole, of a kind believed (in some astronomical theories) to occur in a halo around a galaxy and to contain a significant proportion of the galaxy's mass.
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1990 Nature 7 June 478/1 Dark remnants of these stars have been termed ‘Massive Compact Halo Objects’ (MACHOs) by Kim Griest of Berkeley.
1991 K. Griest in Astrophysical Jrnl. 366 412/1 It could also consist of massive astrophysical objects such as brown dwarfs, Jupiters, or black hole remnants of an early generation of stars. (As a major alternative to WIMPs, this latter class should surely be collectively called massive astrophysical compact halo objects (MACHOs).)
1998 Indianapolis Star 20 Aug. a13/1 Since the team found 20 machos in a relatively tiny slice of the galaxy, it figures these invisible objects can account for about half the mass of the galaxy.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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