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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BAGOT

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(origin: Fr.) A stay or walking staff; a gunstick or drumstick, from Bagnette. It may be a corruption of Bigot (which see). Bagad, in the Welsh, signifies a great many.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: from a pet form of Bagge 2.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)