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beigist

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from βύσσος — “cotton homespun”
  2. derived from byssus — “cotton”
  3. derived from *bysseus✻
  4. derived from bege
  5. suffixed as beigist — “beige + ist”

Definitions

  1. A bland, banal, unoriginal person

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

  2. A political centrist or politically correct person

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA