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Grammar : Noun
Spell : big-uh t
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɪg ət



Definition of bigot

Origin :
  • 1590s, "sanctimonious person, religious hypocrite," from French bigot (12c.), of unknown origin. Earliest French use of the word is as the name of a people apparently in southern Gaul, which led to the now-doubtful, on phonetic grounds, theory that the word comes from Visigothus. The typical use in Old French seems to have been as a derogatory nickname for Normans, the old theory (not universally accepted) being that it springs from their frequent use of the Germanic oath bi God. But OED dismisses in a three-exclamation-mark fury one fanciful version of the "by god" theory as "absurdly incongruous with facts." At the end, not much is left standing except Spanish bigote "mustache," which also has been proposed but not explained, and the chief virtue of which as a source seems to be there is no evidence for or against it.
  • In support of the "by God" theory, as a surname Bigott, Bygott are attested in Normandy and in England from the 11c., and French name etymology sources (e.g. Dauzat) explain it as a derogatory name applied by the French to the Normans and representing "by god." The English were known as goddamns 200 years later in Joan of Arc's France, and during World War I Americans serving in France were said to be known as les sommobiches (see also son of a bitch). But the sense development in bigot is difficult to explain. According to Donkin, the modern use first appears in French 16c. This and the earliest English sense, "religious hypocrite," especially a female one, might have been influenced by beguine and the words that cluster around it. Sense extended 1680s to other than religious opinions.
  • noun intolerant, prejudiced person
Example sentences :
  • The bigot is not he who knows he is right; every sane man knows he is right.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Take him all in all, James was a bigot, a tyrant, a conceited fool.
  • Extract from : « The Bay State Monthly, Vol. 1, Issue 1. » by Various
  • The rebuke was too just and too pointed not to be felt, even by the bigot who had deserved it.
  • Extract from : « The Missionary » by George Griffith
  • A word from Madame Pan to Bigot is of more value than a bribe.
  • Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut
  • Bigot added to the occasion all the prestige of a social rout.
  • Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut
  • May heaven preserve you, my friend, from the anger of a bigot!
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry » by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
  • Yet is adored by that bigot, Sir Joseph Wittoll, as the image of valour.
  • Extract from : « The Comedies of William Congreve » by William Congreve
  • He married Jacintha, and Josephine set them up in Bigot's, (deceased) auberge.
  • Extract from : « White Lies » by Charles Reade
  • Bigot saw the absurdity of anger, but he felt it, nevertheless.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby
  • Bigot was not impenetrable to that low voice so full of pathos and love.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby

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