faggot
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), from Italian faggotto, diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Latin fascis (“bundle of wood”). See also fag.
Noun
faggot (plural faggots)
- (rare, dated in US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
- (chiefly UK) A bundle of sticks tied together.
- 1853, Sir Francis Bond Head, A faggot of French sticks: or, Paris in 1851, page 2:
- 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.
- 1853, Sir Francis Bond Head, A faggot of French sticks: or, Paris in 1851, page 2:
- (obsolete) Burdensome baggage.
- (obsolete, pejorative) An old woman.
- (Ireland, colloquial, pejorative, obsolete) A woman.
- 1796, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Autobiography:
- 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.
- 1834, William Carleton, The Midnight Mass:
- 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! ..."
- 1973, Hugh Leonard, Da:
- MOTHER: To see who?
- DA: You faggot, you; don't let on you don't know.
- 1796, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Autobiography:
- (derogatory, vulgar, colloquial, US, Canada, Australian) A male homosexual.
- 2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 228
- We're a hot looking crew that's your average faggot's wet dream, so we pull some pretty max tricks.
- 2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 228
- (pejorative, vulgar, US, colloquial) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
- (UK, Australian, Ireland) (obsolete in North America) The cast off end of a smoked cigarette.
- (chiefly UK) A meatball made from pork.
Synonyms
- (male homosexual): fag, fairy, poof (British), queer
- See also Wikisaurus:male homosexual
- (end of cigarette): butt
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Translations
bundle of sticks
pork meatball
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male homosexual
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