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- noun
histrionic displays, especially ofmachismo ormale chauvinism
Etymologies
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From testes, masculinizing histrionics as though it were derived from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (hysterikos, "suffering in the uterus") (like hysterical into testerical), though it actually derives from histriōnicus ("pertaining to acting").
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