male chauvinism• We doubt if any of the men on translationcommittees or who did their own translations are conscious of any male chauvinism.• Hence also the exaggerated tribalism, the bullheaded racism of an Alf Garnett, the doggedmale chauvinism of an Andy Capp.• He's had a lifelongfight with feminists who accuse him of extrememale chauvinism and damaging their dignity.• He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out.• Marriageexperts have slammed Laura's ideas as offensive and pandering to male chauvinism.• But to ascribe this to male chauvinism wouldn't be accurate either.
Originchauvinism
(1800-1900)Frenchchauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin early 19th-century French soldier who strongly expressed his love for France and Napoleon