fagot
Plural: fagots
Noun
- offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”).
- Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
- A fagotto, or bassoon.
- A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
Verb
Verb Forms: fagoted, fagoting, fagots
- To bind together into a bundle; to make weary.
- ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
- "He fagotted the blouse for his wife"
- fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
- bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
- To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
Examples
- She had to FAGOT her dwindling tiles to form a desperate, but legal, word.
Origin / Etymology
Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.
Scrabble Score: 9
fagot: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfagot: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fagot: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
fagot: valid Words With Friends Word