beigist

== English == === Etymology === From 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) A bland, banal, unoriginal person; a humorless bourgeois. 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 (17 November 2003), “CHASING THE WITCH.(comedian Billy Connolly)(Interview)”, in New Yorker‎[1], New Yorker, archived from the original on 28 August 2008