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Macho vs Mache - What's the difference?

macho | mache |

As nouns the difference between macho and mache

is that macho is a macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado while mache is an alternative spelling of mâche.

As an adjective macho

is tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily and histrionically tough.

macho

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily]] and [[histrionic, histrionically tough

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado.
  • The striped mullet of California ().
  • A male llama.

    • Derived terms

    * macho man * machoism

    Related terms

    * machismo * machoman

    Anagrams

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    mache

    English

    Noun

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  • (dated) A former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu.

    • Anagrams

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