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発音

• enPR: bĭgʹət, IPA: /ˈbɪɡət/
• 韻: -ɪɡət

名詞

bigot (plural bigots)

1. One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
   • 2023 April 13, Aletha Adu, Jessica Elgot, Kiran Stacey, “Senior Conservatives hit out at Suella Braverman’s ‘racist rhetoric’”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     A former senior minister from Boris Johnson’s government told the Guardian they believed Braverman was a “real racist bigot”.

2. (obsolete) One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.
   • 1653, Urquhart, translating Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, book 1:

     He is no bigot or hypocrite, he is not torn and divided betwixt reality and appearance, no wretch of a rugged and peevish disposition, but honest, jovial, resolute, and a good fellow.

   • 1664, Henry More, A Modest Enquiry Into the Mystery of Iniquity, page 436:

     Thus one part of their Church becomes Sotts and Bigots; and the other that behold this Scene of things, though they profess themselves of their Church, become a company of profane Atheists and clancular Deriders of all Religion. […] Nay it is a question whether those that do more superstitiously cleave to them, doe it not rather in a kind of confusion and obstupefaction of mind out of fear and suspicion, then any determinate assurance or firm belief of the things they outwardly profess.

   • 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 240:

     Donna Clara was a woman of a cold and grave temper, with all the solemnity of a Spaniard, and all the austerity of a bigot.

派生語

参考

• bigot list
• holier-than-thou
• hypocrite

参照

Further reading

• “bigot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bigot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “bigot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.