different between machismo vs braggadocio

English

Etymology

First attested 1940, from American Spanish machismo, from Spanish macho (“male”), + suffix -ismo (“-ism”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m???t?iz.mo?/, /m??t?iz.mo?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??k?z.m??/ (due to a mistaken idea that it comes from Italian)

• Rhymes: -?zm??

Noun

machismo (usually uncountable, plural machismos)

1. exaggerated masculinity
   • September 1971, Germaine Greer, "My Mailer Problem", in Esquire

     The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Synonyms

• machoism
• machoness

Coordinate terms

• femismo (rare)

Related terms

• macho
• machoism
• machoistic
• machoistically

Translations

See also

• braggadocio
• marianismo
• testeria

Anagrams

• machoism

Galician

Etymology

macho (“male”) +? -ismo

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -izmo

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism

Related terms

• machista
• macho

Italian

Noun

machismo m (plural machismi)

1. machismo

Portuguese

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, bigotry against women
2. machismo

Antonyms

• femismo

Related terms

• macho

Spanish

Etymology

macho (“male”) +? -ismo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?t??ismo/, [ma?t??iz.mo]
• Rhymes: -ismo

Noun

machismo m (plural machismos)

1. male chauvinism, machismo, misogyny, sexism

   Antonym: hembrismo

Related terms

• machista
• macho

English

Etymology

After Braggadocchio, boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.

Pronunciation

• (Italianate) IPA^(key): /b?a?a?do?t??o/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?æ.???d??.t????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?æ?.??do?.?i?o?/
• Hyphenation: brag?ga?do?ci?o

Noun

braggadocio (countable and uncountable, plural braggadocios or braggadocioes or braggadocii)

1. A braggart.

   Synonyms: blowhard; see also Thesaurus:braggart
2. Empty boasting.

   Synonym: big talk

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

     He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:braggadocio.

Related terms

• braggadocious

Translations

See also

• machismo

Further reading

• braggadocio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia