a person obstinately and perversely wedded to some opinion or practice, particularly of a religious nature. Camden has probably hit upon the true origin of the word. He relates, that when Rollo, Duke of Normandy, received Gisla, the daughter of Charles the Foolish, in marriage, together with the investiture of that dukedom, he would not submit to kiss Charles's foot; and when his friends urged him by all means to comply with that ceremony, he made answer in the English tongue, "Nest, by God;" upon which the king and his courtiers, deriding him, and corruptly repeating his answer, called him bigot; and hence the Normans were called bigods, or bigots.