A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
Used in modern times of a person who has strong views, especially about religion, race, or politics, and believes that those who have differing views are not worth listening to.
‘Short-sighted bigot’ is the accusation made by one man to another during an argument in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers. The origin of ‘bigot’ is much disputed, but Ernest Weekley makes a good case, in his Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, for a derivation from the oath ‘by God’.
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