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bigotdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From bigot + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The domain or world of bigots; bigots collectively
    • Fortunately I would be saved, it appears, from eternal exile in Bigotdom by Adolf Hitler and a riproaring, first- class orgasm. 1978, Evelyn Keyes, Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister:
    • Wop. The antichristdom. The crayfishdom. The crawdadom. Officious, rudimentary bigots. The bigotdom. Poorest scientists. The poordom. The telephonedom. 2016, Bernard Scrooge, Monkey Engine:
    • The Houston newsman and all the rest of Mississippi bigotdom were worked up over an editorial that had appeared that month in The Mississippian, a campus weekly at Ole Miss. 1967, Ira Harkey, The Smell of Burning Crosses: