January 3, 2012, 12:05 am chauvinist •\ˈshō-və-ˌnist\• noun 1. a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind 2. an extreme bellicose nationalist The word chauvinist has appeared in 12 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 23 in the City Room blog post "The State of the Bagel" by Clyde Haberman: Word that H & H Bagels was shutting its store on the Upper West Side produced something on the order of a seismic reaction in certain corners of New York, which considers itself both sun and moon of the bagel-eating universe. ... Inevitably, other New Yorkers weighed in. Commenters to City Room included a Kings County chauvinist who wrote that "Brooklyn bagels were always better" and a fellow in Albany who looked northward and proclaimed the superiority of Montreal bagels. The Word of the Day and its definitions have been provided by the language-loving minds behind Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus. Learn more about the word "chauvinist" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary. Click on the word below to map it and hear it pronounced: