hundred-percenter

hundred-percenter
noun
an extreme bellicose nationalist
• Syn: ↑chauvinist, ↑jingoist, ↑jingo, ↑flag-waver, ↑patrioteer
• Derivationally related forms: ↑jingoism (for: ↑jingoist), ↑chauvinistic (for: ↑chauvinist), ↑chauvinism (for: ↑chauvinist)
• Hypernyms: ↑patriot, ↑nationalist

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\\“ə(r)\ noun (-s)
Etymology: hundred-percent (American) + -er
: a thoroughgoing, unqualified, and often blatant nationalist; especially : a self-proclaimed opponent of foreign alliances, influences, and interests

the vociferous nationalism of the hundred-percenters … is always most eloquent when it is about to be most rowdy — Walter Lippmann

could never be a hundred-percenter as long as he did not possess an American birth certificate — American Mercury

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/hun"drid peuhr sen"teuhr/, n.
a completely patriotic, sometimes jingoistic person.
[1925-30, Amer.]

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hunˈdred-percentˈer noun (US)
An uncompromising patriot
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Main Entry: ↑hundred

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  • hundred-percenter — hundred percent·er …   English syllables

  • hundred-percenter — noun Etymology: hundred percent (American) Date: 1921 a thoroughgoing nationalist • hundred percentism noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • hundred-percenter — /hun drid peuhr sen teuhr/, n. a completely patriotic, sometimes jingoistic person. [1925 30, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

  • hundred-percenter — hun′dred per•cent′er [[t]pərˈsɛn tər[/t]] n. a thoroughly patriotic, sometimes jingoistic person • Etymology: 1925–30, amer …   From formal English to slang

  • one-hundred-percenter — ˌ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷pə(r)ˈsentə(r) noun ( s) : hundred percenter …   Useful english dictionary

  • hundred-percentism — ˌizəm noun ( s) : the beliefs and practices of a hundred percenter laws … passed under the stress of antialien phobia and hundred percentism Christian Century …   Useful english dictionary

  • hundred-percentism — noun see hundred percenter …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • chauvinist — Synonyms and related words: bigot, chauvin, doctrinaire, dogmatist, fanatic, flag waver, hard hat, hawk, hundred percent American, hundred percenter, illiberal, intolerant, jingo, jingoist, male chauvinist, militarist, nationalist, patriot,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • hard hat — Synonyms and related words: Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, aegis, arm guard, backstop, buffer, bulwark, bumper, chauvin, chauvinist, conservatist, conservative, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, diehard, dodger, extreme right… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • jingo — Synonyms and related words: bigot, chauvin, chauvinist, doctrinaire, dogmatist, fanatic, flag waver, hard hat, hawk, hundred percent American, hundred percenter, illiberal, intolerant, jingoist, male chauvinist, militarist, nationalist, patriot,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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