Meanings
- A surname.
Sally was the illegitimate child of Mendrick Simpleton and Barbara “Babs” Bigott, the product of a chance meeting between the two at a Halloween party in 1974.
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Sir Francis Bigott displayed his banners in this vicinity, and having collected a great multitude from Settrington and Pickering Lyth, he sent an imperious mandate to the Bailiffs of Scarborough.
1811, Thomas Hinderwell, The History and Antiquities of Scarborough, and the Vicinity, page 60
Origin
- Middle Englishbi God“by God”
- EnglishBigott
Applied by the French to Normans in reference to their swearing Middle English bi God (“by God”); see bigot for more.
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