Brewer's: 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: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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