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faggot

noun
/ˈfæɡ.ət/

Etymology

Etymology tree Pre-Greekder. Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos)der. Vulgar Latin *facusder.? Old French fagotbor. Middle English fagot English faggot From Middle English fagot, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), of uncertain origin. Unlikely from Old Occitan fagot or Italian fagotto, as these appear later than the Old French term. Compare also Italian fangotto and Spanish fajo (“bundle, wad”). Perhaps from a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle of wood”). The senses relating to persons, though possibly originating as an extension of the sense "bundle of sticks" (compare baggage), may have been reinforced by fag, from fagging and/or by faygele, from Yiddish פֿייגעלע (feygele, “homosexual”, literally “little bird”), related to English fowl.

  1. derived from פֿייגעלע — “homosexual”
  2. derived from φάκελος — “bundle of wood”
  3. derived from *facus✻
  4. derived from fagot — “bundle of sticks”
  5. inherited from fagot

Definitions

  1. A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying.…

    A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)

    • In the depth of, winter, however, a faggot of real French Sticks — although of little intrinsic value — may possibly enliven for a few moments an English Fireside.

  2. Burdensome baggage.

  3. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.

      • He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them. The waning faggot cast red light over his fangs.
      • To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous gray, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars.

    2. A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)

      • Today would be faggots in gravy and chocolate pudding with a white sauce. I didn't like faggots but picked at them and rolled the peas around my plate.

    3. A gay man, especially an effeminate one

      A gay man, especially an effeminate one; (by extension) a queer man.

      • Drag, Example: “All the fagots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight.
      • See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup? / Yeah buddy, that's his own hair / That little faggot got his own jet airplane / That little faggot, he's a millionaire
      • Shortly after Surrey high school student Hamed Nastoh (called a “faggot” by classmates) killed himself by jumping off a bridge, James Chamberlain wrote a letter to the editor of a small newspaper called the Peace Arch News.

    4. A man considered effeminate.

    5. An annoying, inconsiderate or contemptible person.

    6. An old and/or shrewish woman.

      • she wants me to go to bed to her, and I won't, ... for she is as crooked as a ram's horn ... and as ugly as sin besides ; rot her, the dirty little faggot, she torments me.

    7. A soldier numbered on the muster roll, but not really existing.

    8. A faggot voter.

      • The Glasgow Herald thought that his attack on the faggots was too serious […]

    9. A lazy, weak, work-shy person.

    10. Alternative form of fagot.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA