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faggot
1[ fag-uht ]
/ ËfĂŠg Ét /
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usage alert about faggot
The terms faggot and fag are both used with disparaging intent and are perceived as highly insulting. However, faggot (but not fag ) is sometimes used within the gay community as a positive term of self-reference.
noun Slang.
Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a gay person, especially a gay man.
Offensive. a contemptible or dislikable person.
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Origin of faggot
1An Americanism dating back to 1910â15; perhaps from faggot, a chiefly British contemptuous term for a woman; perhaps the same word as fagot
OTHER WORDS FROM faggot
fag·got·y, fag·got·ty, adjectiveWords nearby faggot
Other definitions for faggot (2 of 2)
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How to use faggot in a sentence
In the same county, there is held annually the âAsh Faggot Ball.â
Cultus Arborum|AnonymousFaggot, a bundle of bits of the stickings (hence probably its name) sold for food to the London poor.
The Slang Dictionary|John Camden HottenFaggot-votes were chiefly used in county elections for members of Parliament.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|VariousIn âWind up the Bush Faggotâ we have again the tree or bush suggested, and the dancing and jumping, or stamping up and down.
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol II of II)|Alice Bertha Gomme
British Dictionary definitions for faggot (1 of 2)
faggot1
esp US fagot
/ (ËfĂŠÉĄÉt) /
noun
a bundle of sticks or twigs, esp when bound together and used as fuel
a bundle of iron bars, esp a box formed by four pieces of wrought iron and filled with scrap to be forged into wrought iron
a ball of chopped meat, usually pork liver, bound with herbs and bread and eaten fried
a bundle of anything
verb (tr)
to collect into a bundle or bundles
needlework to do faggoting on (a garment, piece of cloth, etc)
Word Origin for faggot
C14: from Old French, perhaps from Greek phakelos bundle
British Dictionary definitions for faggot (2 of 2)
faggot2
/ (ËfĂŠÉĄÉt) /
noun
slang, mainly US and Canadian a male homosexualOften shortened to: fag
Derived forms of faggot
faggoty, adjectiveWord Origin for faggot
C20: special use of faggot 1
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