NARROW-MINDED, NARROW-MINDEDNESS
ADJECTIVES
► NABAL surly; ill-natured; stingy; miserly; churlish; narrow-minded → 1861 chiefly Sc.
► NARROW-ASSED slim, skinny; thus, fig. narrow-minded → 1910s US sl.
► NARROW-CONTRACTED narrow-minded; stingy, mean, ungenerous → 1909 Amer. dial.
► NARROW-GUTTED narrow-minded → 1910s US sl.
► NARROW-HARSED narrow-minded; mean, stingy, barely honest → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ONE-WAY narrow-minded; close-minded; obsessive; self-interested → 1953 US sl.
► PODSNAPPIAN relating to, or characteristic of Dickens’s Mr. Podsnap; complacent, self-satisfied, blinkered, narrow-minded → 1866
► RED-NECKED pert. to a redneck; poor, ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, racist; belligerent, loud → 1986 Amer. dial.
► RED-NECKY pert. to a redneck; poor, ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, racist; belligerent, loud → 1986 Amer. dial.
► SCRINNY selfish, narrow-minded → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UPTIGHT inhibited, narrow-minded, very correct and strait-laced → 1968 US
NOUNS
► PARVANIMITY smallness of mind, meanness, narrow-mindedness; also, an instance of this, or a person characterized by it → a1691
NOUNS – PERSON
► ABDERITE a stupid, narrow-minded person; the inhabitants of Abders, a maritime town in Thrace, were anciently proverbial for their stupidity; a scoffer → 1827 (Bk.)
► BABBITT a self-opinionated, self-satisfied small-town bourgeois, with all the prejudices of such a figure; a narrow-minded, middle-class materialist → 1959 Wicked Words Rawson 1989
► NABAL a churlish or miserly person; a narrow-minded, greedy person → 1604
► NABBLE ► NABLE a narrow-minded, greedy, laborious person; a churlish person → 1792 Sc.
► OLD WIGSBY a crotchety, narrow-minded, elderly man who snappishly can see no good in any modern thing → 1842
► OSCAR a prejudiced, narrow-minded person → 1973 US sl.
► REDNECK a poor, White, rural Southerner; a White person perceived as ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, or racist → 1891 Amer. dial., derogatory
► TANNIE narrow-minded, puritan, small-town woman → 1950s S. Afr. sl.
► TEN-CENT MAN a small, narrow-minded, trifling man → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► TIPPER GORE one who is narrow-minded, puritanical, or repressive → 1990s US teen sl.