beigist
beigist · beigists
A bland, banal, unoriginal personA bland, banal, unoriginal person; a humorless bourgeois.
Meaning
2 sensesA bland, banal, unoriginal person; a humorless bourgeois.
A political centrist or politically correct person; an unphilosophical adherent to the zeitgeist.
Origin
From beige + -ist. Probably coined by the comedian and actor Billy Connolly, as an antonymFrom beige + -ist. Probably coined by the comedian and actor Billy Connolly, as an antonym to the word "colourful" as applied to people.
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