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–noun

a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

[Origin: 1590–1600; < MF (OF: derogatory name applied by the French to the Normans), perh. < OE bī God by God

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n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

[French, from Old French.]

Word History: Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person." Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense "a superstitious hypocrite."

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1598, from M.Fr. bigot, from O.Fr., supposedly a derogatory name for Normans, the old theory (not universally accepted) being that it springs from their frequent use of O.E. oath bi God. Plausible, since the Eng. were known as goddamns 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 earliest Fr. use of the word (12c.) is as the name of a people apparently in southern Gaul. The earliest Eng. sense is of "religious hypocrite," especially a female one, and may be influenced by beguine. Sense extended 1687 to other than religious opinions.

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bigot
noun
a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

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bigot [ˈbigət] noun

a person who constantly and stubbornly holds a particular point of view etc
Example: a religious bigot

Arabic:	مُتَعَصِّب لِرأْي أو لِعَقيدَه
Chinese (Simplified):	执拗的人，顽固者
Chinese (Traditional):	執拗的人，頑固者
Czech:	fanatik, pobožnůstkář
Danish:	snævertsynet person
Dutch:	dweper
Estonian:	fanaatik
Finnish:	kiihkoilija
French:	bigot
German:	der, *die Fanatiker(in)
Greek:	άνθρωπος μισαλλόδοξος, αδιάλλακτος
Hungarian:	vakbuzgó
Icelandic:	þröngsÿnismaður
Indonesian:	fanatik
Italian:	bigotto; fanatico

Japanese:	頑迷な人
Korean:	고집쟁이
Latvian:	fanātiķis
Lithuanian:	fanatikas
Norwegian:	sta og sneversynt person, blind tilhenger
Polish:	fanatyk
Portuguese (Brazil):	fanático
Portuguese (Portugal):	fanático
Romanian:	bigot
Russian:	фанатик
Slovak:	pobožnôstkár, -ka
Slovenian:	pobožnjakar, tercijalka
Spanish:	fanático
Swedish:	bigott person
Turkish:	yobaz, bağnaz kimse

See also: bigotry

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bigot
A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see religious issues). Usually found with a specifier; thus, "Cray bigot", "ITS bigot", "APL bigot", "VMS bigot", "Berkeley bigot". Real bigots can be distinguished from mere partisans or zealots by the fact that they refuse to learn alternatives even when the march of time and/or technology is threatening to obsolete the favoured tool. It is truly said "You can tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much." Compare weenie.
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Bigot

Big"ot\, n. [F. bigot a bigot or hypocrite, a name once given to the Normans in France. Of unknown origin; possibly akin to Sp. bigote a whisker; hombre de bigote a man of spirit and vigor; cf. It. s-bigottire to terrify, to appall. Wedgwood and others maintain that bigot is from the same source as Beguine, Beghard.]

1. A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [Obs.]

2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.

To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. --Macaulay.

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Bigot

Big"ot\, a. Bigoted. [Obs.]

In a country more bigot than ours. --Dryden.

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