flag-waver (noun)

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• flag-waver — noun Date: 1894 1. one who is intensely and conspicuously patriotic 2. one who waves a flag in signaling 3. a song intended to rouse patriotic sentiment …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• flag-waver — noun an extreme bellicose nationalist (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑chauvinist, ↑jingoist, ↑jingo, ↑hundred percenter, ↑patrioteer • Derivationally related forms: ↑jingoism ( …   Useful english dictionary

• flag-waving — noun extreme or excessive patriotism. Derivatives flag waver noun …   English new terms dictionary

• flag-wagger — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun chiefly Australia : flag waver …   Useful english dictionary

• waver — 1. verb /weɪ.və(ɹ)/ a) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel. Flowers wavered in the breeze. b) To flicker, glimmer …   Wiktionary

• hundred-percenter — noun an extreme bellicose nationalist • Syn: ↑chauvinist, ↑jingoist, ↑jingo, ↑flag waver, ↑patrioteer • Derivationally related forms: ↑jingoism (for: ↑jin …   Useful english dictionary

• jingoist — noun an extreme bellicose nationalist • Syn: ↑chauvinist, ↑jingo, ↑flag waver, ↑hundred percenter, ↑patrioteer • Derivationally related forms: ↑jingoism, ↑chauvinistic ( …   Useful english dictionary

• patriot — noun would a true patriot abandon a comrade? Syn: nationalist, loyalist; chauvinist, jingoist, flag waver …   Thesaurus of popular words

• patrioteer — noun an extreme bellicose nationalist • Syn: ↑chauvinist, ↑jingoist, ↑jingo, ↑flag waver, ↑hundred percenter • Derivationally related forms: ↑jingoism (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• wave — /weɪv / (say wayv) noun 1. a disturbance of the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a ridge or swell. 2. any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea: a wave of the pulse. 3. a swell, surge,… …  

• nationalist — I noun 1. one who loves and defends his or her country • Syn: ↑patriot • Derivationally related forms: ↑nationalism • Hypernyms: ↑national, ↑subject …   Useful english dictionary