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Definition of Faggot

1. Verb. Ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch. "He fagotted the blouse for his wife"

2. Noun. Offensive term for an openly homosexual man.

3. Verb. Fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them.

4. Noun. A bundle of sticks and branches bound together.

5. Verb. Bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot. "Faggot up the sticks"

Definition of Faggot

1. Noun. (rare dated in US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood. ¹

2. Noun. (chiefly British) A bundle of sticks tied together. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) Burdensome baggage. ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete pejorative) An old woman. ¹

5. Noun. (Irish colloquial pejorative obsolete) A woman. ¹

6. Noun. (derogatory vulgar colloquial US Canada Australia NZ) A male homosexual. ¹

7. Noun. (pejorative vulgar US colloquial) An annoying or inconsiderate person. ¹

8. Noun. (context: used in the UK Australia Ireland NZ) (obsolete in North America) The cast off end of a smoked cigarette. ¹

9. Noun. (chiefly British) A meatball made from pork. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Faggot

1. to fagot [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: fagot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Faggot

fagaceous fagboys fagface fagfaces fagged fagged out faggeries faggery faggier faggiest

fagging faggings faggot up faggoted faggoting faggotings faggotries faggots fagins faglet

faglets fagmaster fagmasters

Literary usage of Faggot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"A small faggot. Weit. NICKIN, ». A simpleton. NICKING, adj. Convenient. Somers. ... A faggot. Wett. NICKY-COX, ». A simpleton. Det. NIDDK, v. To compel. ..."

2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"... they treated the ribaldry with contempt, and did not consider it necessary to sustain the cause of religion by the faggot, the gallows, the pillory, ..."

3. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"A faggot vote Is where a man Is formally possessed of a right to vote for members ... Such a vote is called a "faggot vote." See 7 & 8 Win. III. c. 25, § 7. ..."

4. The slang dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"faggot, a term of opprobrium used by low people to children and women; ... faggot was originally a term of contempt for a dry shrivelled old woman, ..."

5. Memoirs by Marguerite-Jeanne Staal, Cora Hamilton Bell (1892)
"Behold me alone, face to face with my faggot, uncertain whether I should have the girl who would be society and a great support to me, more disturbed than ..."

6. The Electromagnet, and Electromagnetic Mechanism by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1891)
"Two examples may be given here. Fig. 33 FIG. 33. faggot OK ELECTROMAGNETS. illustrates a faggot of bar electromagnets, ..."

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