bigot
Other forms: bigots
A bigot is someone who doesn't tolerate people of different backgrounds or opinions. Someone who tells a racist joke might be labeled a bigot.
A bigot can also be someone who refuses to accept other ideas, as in politics. This word was borrowed from Middle French, but the French word is of uncertain origin. In Old French bigot was a term of abuse for Normans, and possibly related to the oath bi got "by God." In English and French, a bigot was originally a hypocrite, a person who claims to have certain moral beliefs but whose behavior doesn't match those beliefs. A bigot was specifically a hypocritical professor of religion, but the connection with the current sense of bigot is not clear.
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a prejudiced person who is intolerant of other people's opinions or beliefstypes:chauvinista person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kindantifeministsomeone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and womenhomophobea person who hates or fears homosexual peopletype of:
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Vocabulary lists containing bigot
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