[Ads-l] Antedating of "Male Chauvinist" (Adjective)

[Shapiro, Fred]

male chauvinist, adj. (OED 1969)

1944 The Worker 16 Jan. 22/1 (Newspapers.com)

I regret the slip. ... It is a male chauvinist joke, as numerous women have written in to say.

Fred Shapiro

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