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bigot

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bigot - 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 favoured tool. It is truly said "You can tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much." Compare weenie.


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spite of million villains, this makes me a bigot in the fadeless fidelity of man
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
I did not believe a word of this, but rather than have trouble I let it go; for it is a waste of breath to argue with a bigot.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
---De Bigot,'' he added to his seneschal, ``thou wilt word this our second summons so courteously, as to gratify the pride of these Saxons, and make it impossible for them again to refuse; although, by the bones of Becket, courtesy to them is casting pearls before swine.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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