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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bigot
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a religious bigot
▪ Critics say the mayor is a bigot who is inflaming racial tensions in his city.
▪ Toward the end of the campaign, he was reported to have called Jeff a "white, homophobic bigot"
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chuck is short for Charlie, and Charlie is the old code name for a down-home white bigot.
▪ He once called liberalism a form of bigotry, but he did not particularly mind being called a bigot himself.
▪ Possible fools with bigots for fathers, losers for husbands, and mean, mortal hours.
▪ Religious bigots have often employed the cunning device of converting other people's heroes into villains, to suit their own purposes.
▪ The clergy, bigots and hypocrites, stirred up the people, he charged.
▪ We must seek out the bigots from wherever they are-even those above the law.
▪ What you need to do is be more careful in your scattershot approach to labeling people as bigots.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bigot

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.

Bigot

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

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bigot

1590s, "sanctimonious person, religious hypocrite," from French bigot (12c.), which is 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.\n

\nIn 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 (such as 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.

Wiktionary
bigot

n. 1 (context derogatory English) One who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices. 2 One who is strongly partial to one's own group (e.g. religion, race, gender, political party, etc.) and is intolerant of those who differ.

WordNet
bigot

n. a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

Wikipedia
Bigot (disambiguation)

A bigot is a prejudiced person who is unfairly and irrationally intolerant of people who are different from themselves, especially in race or religion.

Bigot can also refer to:

As a French surname:

This name was used as a derogatory term applied to Normans for their frequent note of the Old English oath bī god "by God".

  • Eugène Bigot, conductor
  • Paul Bigot, architect
  • François Bigot, Intendant of New France (1703-1778)
  • Francois Bigot, notary royal of New France (1643-1708)
  • Georges Ferdinand Bigot, a French artist, active in Meiji Japan
  • Guillaume Bigot, poet
  • Jacques Bigot, French politician
  • Jacques Bigot, Canadian Jesuit (1651–1711)
  • Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot, French entomologist (1818–1893)
  • Vincent Bigot, Canadian Jesuit (1649-1720)
  • Marie Bigot (1786-1820), French musician
  • Trophime Bigot, French Baroque painter
Other uses:
  • BIGOT list, an security/espionage term

Usage examples of "bigot".

Jones, who we yesterday characterized as a no-good, racist, homophobe, sexist bigot, is in fact none of these things.

Trent Lott-like editorials demanding that the pathetic Neanderthal, homophobic bigot be drummed right out of the human race.

What business did someone who sympathized with a cross-burning bigot have sitting on the second highest court in the land?

The second was a seventeen-year-old who was the ringleader of the gang, a vile bigot who earlier had fired a shot into the home of the couple.

Sachs the street cop with wire thoroughly enjoyed hearing the vicious bigot squeal like a pig as she sprayed him again.

The King of Naples was a bigot and a tyrant, a man of obstinate will, and he exhibited a fierce hatred to both civil and religious liberty.

Most of the time he liked him, felt quite fond of him in fact, but there were other times when he saw him as a narrow bigot, a stick-in-the-mud, who would not give an inch towards progress.

You were a closet bigot for years, using the minorities for votes only, and now your agents and troops are running around the country, knocking people in the head, taking their weapons from them.

I went on the offensive, you pompous bigot, just like you would have done in the same situation.

His habits, moreover, were irreproachable, and in all things connected with religion, although no bigot, he was of the greatest strictness, and, admitting everything as an article of faith, nothing appeared difficult to his conception.

The teacher of embroidery, an old bigot, who at first appeared not to mind the attachment I skewed for Angela, got tired at last of my too frequent visits, and mentioned them to the abbe, the uncle of my fair lady.

This Fleming, who left me only for one hour in the morning, to go--at least he said so-to church to perform his devotions, made a bigot of me!

Even traditionalist religious leaders and respected conservative social commentators regularly get called bigots for doing nothing more than upholding the tenets of their faith.

I wonder if David Westin would be so Swiss if someone had asked what he thought about what those vicious white bigots in Texas did to James Byrd, dragging him to his death from the back of a pickup truck?

Even though not all reporters and editors were bigots, at some level they saw blacks as different, as alien, as more dangerous, as out of the mainstream and, of course, as inferior.