Jingo

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A word used as a jocular oath.

(2): ( n.) A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A name, of uncertain derivation, given to a political party favourable to an aggressive, menacing policy in foreign affairs, and first applied in 1877 to that political section in Great Britain which provoked the Turco-Russian war.

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