beigist

English

Etymology

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

Noun

beigist (plural beigists)

1. A bland, banal, unoriginal person; a humorless bourgeois.
2. A political centrist or politically correct person; an unphilosophical adherent to the zeitgeist.

Quotations

• 2003, November 17, The New Yorker: "Connolly is an instinctive disturber of the peace, an enemy of blandness — of the beigists."

Synonyms

• bore, bourgeois, conformist, dullard, square
• (political centrist): centrist

References

• Lahr, John (2003 November 17) “CHASING THE WITCH.(comedian Billy Connolly)(Interview)”, in New Yorker‎^[1], New Yorker, archived from the original on 28 August 2008