faggot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: faggots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fagot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phaggot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.)
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
collective
examples: 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.
Besides the logs and roots that simmered with turves and dung on the cottage fire, rapid heat for bread-making came from faggots - bundles of dry twigs about 4 ft long - which were fed into the oven, burned and then removed as ash before the dough went in.
gloss: Burdensome baggage.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
pos: noun
gloss: A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
pos: noun
tags: dated
rare
examples: 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.
gloss: A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: 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.
gloss: A gay man, especially an effeminate one; (by extension) a non-heterosexual man.
pos: noun
tags: offensive
vulgar
examples: 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.
We're a hot looking crew that's your average faggot's wet dream, so we pull some pretty max tricks.
Fleissner's explanation presumably implies that Dickens meant Fag as an allusion to the derogatory English words fag 'homosexual', and faggot 'homosexual'
2012, Margaret Cho, quoted (mimicking Karl Lagerfeld) in On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
Of course I'm a faggot, darling. I'm a flaming faggot, darling. I am fanning the flames of my faggotry.
gloss: A man considered effeminate.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
offensive
vulgar
gloss: An annoying, inconsiderate or contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
offensive
vulgar
gloss: An old and/or shrewish woman.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
archaic
colloquial
derogatory
offensive
examples: I appoynt thée no more continencie, than to eate while thy bellie is full, nor conﬅancie, but to brawle rather than burne: a filbert is better than a faggot, except it be an Athenian ſhe handfull: you know that Coſmoſophos, euer ſince your laﬅ mariage, how doth the father of your ſonne in law?
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.
The woman, in accordance with the custom of the country, raised the Irish cry, in a loud melancholy wail ...
Darby, who prided himself on maintaining silence, could not preserve the consistency of his character upon this occasion ... "Your sowl to the divil, you faggot!" he exclaimed, "what do you mane? The divil whip the tongue out o' you! ..."
he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting for that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d for her methylated spirit […]
To me she is fractious, tiresome, and a faggot. Yet the subtle desirableness is in her, for me. As it is in the brown hen, or even a sow.
MOTHER: To see who?
DA: You faggot, you; don't let on you don't know.
gloss: A soldier numbered on the muster roll, but not really existing.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
offensive
possibly
gloss: A faggot voter.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
historical
offensive
possibly
examples: The Glasgow Herald thought that his attack on the faggots was too serious […]
gloss: A lazy, weak, work-shy person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
dated
offensive
slang
Derived words: antifaggot
assfaggot
fag
fagboy
fag break
fagbutt
fagdom
fagette
fagface
faggot brief
faggotface
faggot fucker
faggotier
faggotiest
faggoting
faggot iron
faggotish
faggotism
faggotize
faggotizing
faggotly
faggot marriage
faggotness
faggotry
faggot vote
faggot voter
faggoty
faggy
faglet
fag marriage
fgt
f-slur
furfag
furgot
homofaggot
niggerfaggot
San Fagciscan
sap faggot
straggot
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