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Noun: chauvinist  show-vu-nist
  1. A person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind
     
  2. An extreme bellicose nationalist
    - jingoist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, patrioteer

Derived forms: chauvinists

See also: chauvinism, chauvinistic

Type of: bigot, nationalist, patriot

Encyclopedia: Chauvinist

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