BIGOD, BIGOT. » Wien Rollo had Normandy made over to huu by Carolus Stultus, with his daughter Gisla, he would not submit to kiss Charles's foot. And when his friends urged him bj all means to kiss the king's foot, in gratitude for so great a faA'om*, he made answer in the English tongue, Xe se by God ; that is. Not so by God. Upon which the king and his courtiers deriding him, and corruptly repeating his answer, called him Bigod; ft-om whence the Normans are to tliis day termed BiGODl." Camd. Britannia, Ed. 1722, Vol i. p. ccix. It was said of that people that at every other word they would swear " By God," and thus Bigod, (whence our word bigot,) became synonymous with Norman. The equivalent French oath ' Par Dieu,' has iu like manner become an English surname. See Pardew.

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