faggot
English
/ˈfæ.ɡət/
noun
Definitions
- (chiefly) 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.
- (obsolete) Burdensome baggage.
- A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
- (rare) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
- (chiefly) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See (food)|Wikipedia.)
- (offensive) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
- (UK) A shrewish woman.
- (offensive) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
- (offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid, pathetic, emotional, non-heteronormative in some way
- (obsolete) A soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not really existing.
- (UK) A faggot voter.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fagot inherited from Middle French fagot (bundle of sticks) derived from Italian fagotto (bassoon) derived from Latin *facus, fascis (bundle, band, bundle of wood, package, faggot, burden, load) derived from Yiddish פֿייגעלע.
Origin
Yiddish
פֿייגעלע
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antifaggot English
- ass English
- assfaggot English
- egofaggotry English
- face English
- faggotface English
- faggotism English
- faggotize English
- faggotly English
- faggotness English
- faggotry English
- faggoty English
- fagot English
- fagotto English
- feygele English
- furfaggotry English
- homo English
- homofaggot English
- nigger English
- niggerfaggot English
- fagotti Finnish
- *facus Latin
- *fascellus Latin
- fasciatim Latin
- fascis Latin
- Fagott German
- contrafagotto Italian
- controfagotto Italian
- fagottista Italian
- fagotto Italian
- fascio Italian
- fascismo Italian
- infagottare Italian
- fagot Dutch, Flemish
- fagot French
- фаго́т Russian
- фагот Russian
- fajo Spanish, Castilian
- φάκελος Ancient Greek
- *bʰask- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰasko Proto-Indo-European
- fagot Middle English
- fagot Old French
- fais Old French
- fagot Catalan, Valencian
- feix Catalan, Valencian
- fagot Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- φαγκότο Greek (modern)
- fogal Old High German
- fagot Turkish
- fagot Middle French
- פֿייגעלע Yiddish
- feixe Old Portuguese
- faxo Aragonese