machoistically

English

Etymology

machoistic +‎ -ally

Adverb

machoistically (comparative more machoistically, superlative most machoistically)

  1. (rare) In a macho or machoistic manner.
    • 2013, Mark Gaber, RIJICHO‎, page 126:
      He knew how to lead songs: just sing the first line, then smile and machoistically heave your arm.
    • 1993, The law school and the university: the present and the future‎:
      so that our librarians at their annual rendezvous can no longer proudly and machoistically proclaim mine is bigger than yours?
    • 1989, Eartha Kitt, Confessions of a Sex-Kitten‎, page 224:
      Yurtle the Turtle placed the citizens of his world one on top of the other in order to see more and more and more, and therefore take more and more and more, and therefore feel more and more and more machoistically important.
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