bigot

[ big-uht ]

noun

1. a person who is intolerant or hateful toward people whose race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc., is different from the person's own.

bigot

/ ˈbɪɡət /

noun

1. a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race

Derived Forms

• ˈbigoted, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bigot¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Middle French, from Old French: a derogatory name applied by the French to the Normans, perhaps from Old English bī God “by God”

Word History and Origins

Origin of bigot¹

C16: from Old French: name applied contemptuously to the Normans by the French, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

Unfortunately, popular understandings of the bigot remain anchored in an earlier time.

From The Daily Beast

Critics of the bigot should begin placing a bit less emphasis on what he says or feels than what he actually does.

From The Daily Beast

Not every bigot is a conservative and not every conservative is a bigot.

From The Daily Beast

The bigot now employs camouflage in translating his prejudices into reality.

From The Daily Beast

The bigot today is often unaware either that he has prejudices or that he is indulging them.

From The Daily Beast

A good man, and a scholar of rare erudition, he possessed nevertheless the true temper of a bigot.

From Project Gutenberg

A religious bigot at the head of an empire, is one of the greatest scourges which Heaven in its fury could have sent upon earth.

From Project Gutenberg

The scholarship of the critical philosopher everywhere overbears the prejudice of the Christian bigot.

From Project Gutenberg

He is a furious bigot, and perfectly ignorant and regardless of the first principles of religion.

From Project Gutenberg

And suddenly a voice is heard in the darkness; terribly he did cry; a whale, the thinnest of them all, has there spit out a bigot.

From Project Gutenberg

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