British Meaning Sorry if this has already been covered here but it seems to me like the British meanings section needs to be removed from the article It has nothing to do with americanizing wikipedia or anything like that It s just that this is specifically an article about using faggot as an insult And while although fag is an entirely valid word for a cigarette I can t imagine how it could be used as both a cigarette and an insult in the same sentence I hope I m making myself clear here I might be rambling The disambiguation page for fag rightly includes the link to cigarettes But the article specifically for the insult really shouldn t or at the very least shouldn t have an entire section on meat and cigarettes No 1 it s relevant for the origins of the epithet if only to rule out some popular misconceptions there used to a load of fanciful nonsense on this 2 the article needs to define the limits of the epithet by covering different meanings 1 No the etymology section is relevant for the origins of the epithet 2 Cigarette is not a meaning of specifically the insult See the difference Cigarette is a meaning of fag Cigarette is not a way of interpreting faggot if you first specifically clarify that you intend it as an insult See section below this article attracts so much nonsense that it is best to stake out the whole linguistic area in an accurate fashion otherwise you will have as we have had in the past that the Uk cigarette meaning comes from burning gays although using them to light witches is new Homosexuals doused in fuel and burned homosexuals were supposedly burnt at the stake in medieval England More accurately they were doused in fuel and used in place of sticks for the burning of supposed witches Surely that can t be right They might indeed have been burnt at the stake as heretics but used as mere kindling to burn witches Yes I find this very odd as well Now most sources I ve read certainly indicate that burning has never been the normal punishment for homosexuals in Britain And burning homosexuals as heretics is not the same as burning them for homosexuality particularly as that was made a crime in itself Has anyone read this Homophobia book How well researched does this item appear Either way the burning at the stake story is highly unlikely to have much to do with the modern offensive use of the word This is absolute nonsense It s a myth one and the word didn t mean homosexual when people were burnt at the stake two Just because some guy repeated it in a book doesn t mean we have to Faggot to fag Although this is original research after learning the original meaning of faggot the first connection I made was that gay men are people who put their sticks together also Is there any chance that this is a source for the word No