faggoty

English

Etymology

From faggot +‎ -y.

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Adjective

faggoty (comparative faggotier, superlative faggotiest)

1. (rare) Relating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
2. (slang, derogatory, offensive) Characteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones.

   Synonym: faggotish

   • 1928, Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 129:

     And there is two things in Harlem I don't understan' / It is a bulldyking woman and a faggoty man

   • 1935, E. E. Cummings, “american critic ad 1935”, in George J. Firmage, editor, Complete Poems, 1904-1962, Revised, corrected, and expanded edition, New York: Liveright, published 1991, →ISBN, page 901:

     american critic ad 1935 / alias faggoty slob with a sob […]

   • 1946, Edmund Gilligan, I Name Thee Mara, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 396:

     The performer appeared again. He darted out of the sail-cloth folds and danced forward in a mincing, faggotty step, his hips swaying.

   • 1950, Jack Woodford [pseud. Josiah Pitts Woolfolk], The Loud Literary Lamas of New York, New York: Vantage Press, →OCLC, page 86:

     Our whole literature has become faggoty and Commie and epicene and androgynous. I say it stinks and the hell with it.

   • 1959 February, Didgeon, “Arrow in the Air”, in Mattachine Review, San Francisco: Mattachine Society, →ISSN, page 6:

     My lieutenant was my bitterest opponent. "A queer's a queer," he insisted. "Christ, they’re no damn good, any of ’em. You know that. Why waste sympathy on the faggoty sonuvvabitch?"

   • 1961, Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, spoken by Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier):

     How come all you college boys wear them faggoty-looking white shoes?

   • 1964, Saul Bellow, Herzog, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 238:

     An alcoholic once, judged Herzog from the look of his skin, and there was a certain faggotty prissiness in his speech, too.

   • 1971, “Sincerely Yours..: Letters to Editor”, in Drag: A Magazine About the Transvestite, volume 1, number 1, Queens Publications, →OCLC, page 30:

     [Letter No.] 3. I see the enemy of all drag queens.... the genuine gay, as those maze-yentas, the up-tight professional, epigoni-homosexual, and their loot-organisations who make a point in all the media to say that they are not swish, faggoty mad screaming, drag queens.... but just mutual cock-suckers.

   • 1995 December 8, Albert Williams, “Ghost of Christmas Past”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Also good are Johnny Lee Davenport's Strength, Lou Ferguson's God, adolescent Jay Kiecolt-Wahl's Five Wits, and Kyle Hall's Beauty; unfortunately, Alan Wilder's sleazy Goods, Marilyn Dodds Frank's country-hick Kindred, and David Alan Novak's faggoty Cousin rely on cheap-shot stereotypes (does he really have to flip a limp wrist when he says "thither"?)

   • 2001, George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 107:

     Lacrosse is not a sport; lacrosse is a faggoty college activity. I don't care how rough it is, anytime you're running around a field, waving a stick with a little net on the end of it, you're engaged in a faggoty college activity.

   • 2006 November 24, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     --is a big, fat, fucking, faggoty yes, NL. You're definitely one or the other.

Alternative forms

• faggotty