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Definition: Bigot |
BigotNoun1. A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bigot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | Bigot n. [common] 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 favored tool. It is truly said "You can tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much." Compare weenie, Amiga Persecution Complex. Source: Jargon File. |
Literature | Bigot means simply a worshipper (Anglo-Saxon, bigan, to worship; German, bigott). Various explanations have been given from time to time, but none are well supported. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In computing jargon, a bigot is a person who is religiously attached to some operating system, software or hardware product and often advocates it enthusiastically. A bigot will often refuse to find alternatives to these, even when technological advancements has been introduced since their release.
See also: zealot, partisan
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bigot."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Certainty | Gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res judicata, ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer; doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist, Sir Oracle; ipse dixit. |
Heterodoxy | Bigot; (obstinacy); fanatic, abdal, iconoclast. |
Impiety | Bigot; saint; Pharisee; sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado. |
Obstinacy | Mule; opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator; stickler, dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bigot |
| English words defined with "bigot": Bigotedly, bigotry ♦ dogmatism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bigot": bigot, Bigot and his Castle of Bungay ♦ Parson Trulliber. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bigot" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (bigot), Romanian (bigot, bigoted, hot gospeller, religionist), Serbo-Croatian (bigot). |
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Screenplays | You're a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot. (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins) I'm a bigot. I assume things about the good-looking they don't deserve - like they get whatever they want, or that their females don't want to talk to me. (Andy Richter Controls the Universe; writing credit: John Banas) I ain't a bigot, I'm just saying it ain't your fault that youse guys is colored. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) Right, I'm a bigot, I know, but for the left. (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Josh Billings | Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You may be old, you may be a prude, you may be a bigot, you may be his aunt, but it is always pleasant to see a lancer enter your room. |
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| "Bigot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Bigot" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bigot | 24 |
bigot coach | 14 |
bigot fred | 3 |
bach bach bigot ensemble landowska landowska play string | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "bigot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fanatik (bigoted, devotee, fanatic, fanatical, freak, pious, sectarian, zealot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متعصب (bigoted, devout, factional, fanatic, fanatical, fundamentalist, hard liner, illiberal, intolerant, narrow minded, orthodox, pi, prejudiced, sectarian, zealot), مريد (satellite, supporter), تعصب ديني (devoutness, enthusiasm, fundamentalist, ultra orthodox), المتعصب لحزب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сляп привърженик (myrmidon), фанатик (devotee, fanatic, zealot), тесногръд човек, ограничен фанатик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 偏执的人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | náboženský fanatik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | متعصب (Dogmatic, Intolerant, Rabid, Zeal), ادم خرافاتی , ادم ریاکار (Hypocrite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kiihkoilija (fanatic, zealot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bigot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | frömmler (bigots, sanctimonious hypocrite), Fan (buff, fan, supporter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φανατικόσ (bigoted, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, sectarian, zealot), αδιάλλακτοσ οπαδόσ συστήματοσ, θρησκόληπτοσ (pietist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ק אי עור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bigott (bigoted, churchy, spiky), vakbuzgó követõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | orang fanatik (zealot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bigotto (bigoted, sanctimonious), bacchettone, pinzochero, fanatico (addict, bug, fan, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, zealot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "変木 (oaf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とうへ"ぼく (oaf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 집통이. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | doalchrauee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | fanatiker (fanatic, zealot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igotbay intolerante (impatient, intonate), indivíduo fanático. (various references) bigot (bigoted, hot gospeller, religionist), habotnic (bigoted, fanatical, gushing, religiose, saintly). (various references) фанатик (fanatic, zealot). (various references) bigot, čovek pun predrasuda. (various references) intolerante (bigoted, illiberal, impatient, intolerant, narrow minded). (various references) trångsynt person. (various references) คนหัว"ื้อ. (various references) bağnaz kimse (religionist, sectarian, zealot), yobaz (bigoted, uncultured), dar görüşlü kimse (old fogey, old fogy). (various references) расист (racialist, racist), ханжа (goody goody, pharisee), фанатик (fanatic, fundamentalist, mucker, partisan, sectarian, zealot). (various references) người tin mù quáng. (various references) penboethyn (fanatic), dallbleidiwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "bigot": bigoted, bigotedly, bigotries, bigotry, bigots. (additional references) | |
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"Bigot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abigo, bago, Bagoe, bagot, bagou, Bahot, bego, Begob, begod, Begor, begote, Bergot, betog, Beugmot, B'gosh, Biagiotti, bicot, bidgot, bidot, Biga, Bigah, bigat, bigdot, biget, bigfot, Biggate, bigget, biggot, biggott, biggut, bigi, bigit, Bigo, bigol, Bigos, bigote, bigow, bigst, Binot, biot, Biott, Bitot, bivo, bivot, Bogod, briget, Brigo, bugout, Bygott, figot, Higgott, iogt, ligot, pigot, Rigot, tigot, vigot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bigot" (pronounced bi"gut) |
| 4 | -i" g u t | frigate, gigot, spigot. |
| 3 | -g u t | agate, aggregate, argot, ergot, faggot, ingot, legate, maggot, nugget, surrogate, target. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-o-t" | |
-1 letter: obit. | |
-2 letters: big, bio, bit, bog, bot, gib, git, gob, got, obi, tog. | |
-3 letters: bi, bo, go, it, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-o-t" | |
+1 letter: bigots. | |
+2 letters: bigfoot, bigoted, bigotry, bigshot, biltong, boating, bolting, booting, pigboat, tombing. | |
+3 letters: aborting, bigfoots, bigmouth, bigshots, biltongs, bloating, blotting, boasting, boatings, boggiest, bongoist, boosting, borating, botching, bottling, doubting, gumbotil, kingbolt, misbegot, obligate, obligati, obligato, orbiting, pigboats, ringbolt, stobbing, tabooing, taboring. | |
+4 letters: balloting, besotting, bestowing, bigmouths, bigotedly, bigotries, biologist, blotching, bombsight, bongoists, bonneting, bothering, bottlings, bottoming, bowstring, bromating, buttoning, cogitable, combating, entombing, gibbosity, globalist, globbiest, gumbotils, intombing, kingbolts, nonbiting, obbligati, obbligato, objecting, obligated, obligates, obligatos, obtaining, obtesting, obtruding, obtunding, obverting, obviating, outbaking, outboxing, outbuying, probating, rebooting, ringbolts, tabouring, thighbone, throbbing, tribology, troubling, unbolting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 67 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. --. --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i g o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0067 006F 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675738186 |
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