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beigist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
beigist
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bland, banal, unoriginal person; a humorless bourgeois.

noun

A political centrist or politically correct person; an unphilosophical adherent to the zeitgeist.

Etymology

From beige + -ist. Probably coined by the comedian and actor Billy Connolly, as an antonym to the word "colourful" as applied to people.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

beigists (plural)

Synonyms

bore bourgeois conformist dullard square centrist

Questions

What does beigist mean?
A bland, banal, unoriginal person; a humorless bourgeois.
Where does beigist come from?
From beige + -ist. Probably coined by the comedian and actor Billy Connolly, as an antonym to the word "colourful" as applied to people.

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