Meaning

14 senses
  1. (Ireland, UK, collective)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.)

    Reisigbündel

    вяза́нкаvjazánka, оха́пкаoxápka

    a bundle of sticks and branches bound together

  2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.

  3. (dated, rare)A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.

    Brennholz, Scheit

  4. (Ireland, UK)A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork.

  5. (offensive, vulgar)A gay man, especially an effeminate one; (by extension) a non-heterosexual man.

  6. A gay man, especially an effeminate one; (by extension) a non-heterosexual man.

    (broadly, offensive, vulgar)A homosexual person or non-heterosexual person of any gender.

  7. (broadly, offensive, vulgar)A queer person in general.

  8. (Canada, US, derogatory, offensive, vulgar)A man considered effeminate.

    offensive term for a homosexual man

  9. (Canada, US, derogatory, offensive, vulgar)An annoying, inconsiderate or contemptible person.

    Arschloch, Mistkerl, Drecksack

  10. (Ireland, UK, historical, offensive, possibly)A faggot voter.

  11. (Ireland, UK, dated, offensive, slang)A lazy, weak, work-shy person.

  12. (obsolete)Burdensome baggage.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. This site is all about faggots.

    ruЭтот сайт весь про пидарасов. — Ooneykcall

  2. You can't beat me at this game, faggot.

  3. Where I took faggots, you could only take twigs.

  4. Somebody drove by our house and yelled, "Faggot commies!"

    Хтось проїжджав повз наш будинок і прокричав: "Підараси, комуняки!" — deniko

  5. I'm a huge faggot.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
bundle of sticks:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
bundle of sticks:
piece of firewood:
annoying person:

Origin

From Middle English fagot, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), of uncertain origin

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”).

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Forms

plural: faggots

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
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See also

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