Definition of FAGGOT

faggot

Plural: faggots

Noun

  • offensive term for an openly homosexual man
  • a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
  • 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.)
  • Burdensome baggage.
  • A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
  • A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
  • A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)
  • A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
  • A non-heterosexual man.
  • A man considered weak, effeminate, timid, pathetic, emotional, non-heteronormative in some way.
  • An annoying or inconsiderate person.
  • A shrewish woman.
  • A soldier numbered on the muster roll, but not really existing.
  • A faggot voter.
  • A lazy, weak, work-shy person.

Verb

Verb Forms: faggoted, faggoting, faggots

  • To bind together into a bundle; to make weary.
  • ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
  • fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
  • bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
    • "faggot up the sticks"
  • Alternative form of fagot.

Examples

  • He tried to FAGGOT his scattered letters into a coherent high-scoring word, but it was tough.

Origin / Etymology

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", may have been reinforced by faygele, from Yiddish פֿייגעלע (feygele, “homosexual”, literally “little bird”), related to English fowl.

Scrabble Score: 11

faggot: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
faggot: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
faggot: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 0

faggot: not valid in Words With Friends