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Definition: Faggot |
FaggotNoun1. Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man. 2. A bundle of sticks and branches bound together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faggot" was first used: 1279. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A bundle of branches bound together for use in protective works. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Brushwood which has been rolled into cylindrical bundles and secured with wire ; a bundle of brushwood used to help make a road foundation on marshy or unstable ground; also to form a barrier against erosion of the bank of, or to accumulate sand, silt etc. in, a watercourse. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Multilingual Slang | Czech (buzerant ), French (pédé), Italian (finocchio), Polish (pedal), Spanish (joto, maricon de playa), Swedish (bög ). (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Faggot -- a bundle of sticks or twigs bound together.Faggot came to be used as a slang term for homosexuals because in the past homosexuals would be burnt at the stake, which, of course, required faggots(bundles of sticks). Definition: A male homosexual. Context: Used by a member of the social group directed toward another member of the social group. Social Source: Male, homosexuals,ages 17-20. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | FAGGOT. A man hired at a muster to appear as a soldier. To faggot in the canting sense, means to bind: an allusion to the faggots made up by the woodmen, which are all bound. Faggot the culls; bind the men. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In American English, the term "fag" (a variant on faggot) is a largely pejorative term for male homosexuals.Its use for male homosexuals originated in the US in the early 20th century. As with the use of "nigger" within some black communities, the word "fag" has to some extent been reclaimed by the gay community. Some homosexuals use the word to one another without any derogatory implication. For example the term "Fag hag" is often used by male homosexuals to describe their female friends.
American teens have adopted the term as a generalized term of derision. This would seem to be related to the similar usage of gay, but the usage of fag seems to be more obviously tied to the sex/gender issues than does gay.
Related Terms
In British English, "fag" is used as a colloquialism for a cigarette, as in "I'm gasping for a fag", or "where can I get some fags?".
- fag hag
- queer
- faggot
"Fag" meaning cigarette, came from the original word - "faggot" which is the word for a bundle of something combustible on the end of a stick - also known as a torch, like the olympic torch.
Also in Britain the word "fag" is used (as a verb and a noun) to refer to a kind of apprenticeship practiced within public schoolss. Younger boys within the school fag for the older boys by cooking breakfasts, cleaning sports kit or other menial tasks. Casual violence and bullying are sometimes associated with fagging in the popular consciousness. This practice has now largely died out.
See also: American and British English differences.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fag."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A faggot is a kind of pork meatball, a traditional dish in parts of the UK, especially Wales.The dish saw its greatest popularity with the rationing during World War II, but has become less popular in recent years. Faggots are usually home-made, and are to be found on traditional butchers' stalls and in markets.
The best-known commercial brand is Brain's Faggots.
Faggot is also an archaic imperial unit for sticks:
- 1 short faggot of sticks = 2 ft girth × 32 in long bundle of short wood sticks/billets
- 1 long faggot of sticks = 2 ft. girth × 4 ft. long bundle of long wood sticks/billets
- 1 faggot of iron = 2 ft. girth × 1 ft. long bundle of iron/steel rods/bars for horseshoes & so forth.
In modern American usage "faggot" or "fag" is a generally derogatory term for gay men.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Faggot."
Synonyms: FaggotSynonyms: fag (n), fagot (n), fairy (n), nance (n), pansy (n), poof (n), poove (n), pouf (n), queen (n), queer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket. |
Unsubstantiality | Nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle; (smallness); all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence. thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra, flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Faggot |
| Specialty definitions using "faggot": SPANISH FAGGOT. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Just thought you should know, faggot. (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) There are big brave balls, and there are little mincey faggot balls (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) I'm gonna make you look like a sick faggot. (Black Belt Jones; writing credit: Alex Ross; Fred Weintraub) Mr. Niles, I just found out that Count Dracula was a faggot! (Werewolf; writing credit: Brad Hornbacher; Tony Zarindast) Isn't it interesting that if I grab a woman's ass and she punches my lights out then she's defending her rights, but if a faggot grabs my ass and I punch his lights out, then I'm a homophobe (The Way of the Gun; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) | |
Lyrics | My faggot father must've had his panties up in a bunch (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem) | |
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| "Faggot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Faggot" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "faggot": faggot-heated, faggot-stitch, faggot-stitched. | |
Ending with "faggot": furze-faggot. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
faggot | 236 | chick dick faggot silly | 3 |
faggot free | 38 | define faggot | 3 |
faggot texas | 16 | faggot man pelican re swede | 3 |
faggot xxx | 13 | anti faggot tank | 3 |
faggot indulgence lyrics mindless self | 7 | faggot indulgence mindless self | 3 |
faggot joke | 6 | faggot tranny | 2 |
el faggot | 5 | cock cum faggot laughed suck swallow wife | 2 |
back faggot mad texas | 5 | faggot mp3 texas | 2 |
faggot lyrics | 5 | faggot instrumento | 2 |
chick dick faggot shirt silly t | 4 | faggot sex | 2 |
faggot story | 4 | del faggot historia | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "faggot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vandak (bunch, bundle, reap, truss), tufë shufrash (fagot), qofte (cake, croquette, fagot, meat ball, noisettes, rissole), një krah me shkarpa (fagot), homoseksual (fag, fagot, fairy, gay, homosexual, pansy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сноп пръчки (fagot), кюфте от кълцан дроб (fagot), наръч дърва (fagot), противна жена (fagot), педераст (bugger, fag, fagot, homosexual, pansy, pederast, pouf, quean, queen, queer, sod, sodomite, swish). (various references) | |
Czech | otep (bundle, fagot, sheaf, truss), otýpka (bundle, truss, wad, wisp), knedlíèek, homouš. (various references) | |
Danish | faskine (fascine, fascine pole, gabion), fagot (bassoon, fagot), risknippe. (various references) | |
Dutch | mutserd, mutsaard, brandstapel (woodpile). (various references) | |
Esperanto | brulŝtiparo. (various references) | |
Finnish | risunki (fascine, fascine pole), risukimppu (fagot). (various references) | |
French | fascine (fascinates, fascine), fagot (fagot). (various references) | |
German | reisigbündel (bundle of twigs, fagots). (various references) | |
Greek | κλαδόπλεγμα (fascine, fascine pole, wattle), κλαδόδεμα (fascine, fascine pole), σουτζουκάκι, φαγκό (fagot), ομοφυλόφιλοσ (homosexual, poof), δέσμη ξύλων ή ράβδων, δεμάτι ξύλα, δεμάτι (sheaf, truss), δεματιάζω (bale, bunch, sheaf, stack, truss). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'זיר (cuttable, differentiable, log, piece of wood). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vesszőköteg, rõzse (loppings), rőzsenyaláb (kid), rőzse (dry sticks, small sticks, sticks), meleg (campy, cream-puff, fag, mellow, poovey, poovy, thermal, to be warm, warm, warmth), kötegelt vasrudak, kötegelt vas, homokos (flit, gay, gravelly, gritty, homo, poof, poofdah, poofter, poovey, poovy, sabulous, sanded, Sandy), görény (creep, crumb, Fitchew, foumart, nerd, nurd, polecat, stinkard, stinker, yuck), ellenszenves férfi (fag, nerd, nurd). (various references) | |
Italian | fascina (fagot, fascine). (various references) | |
Manx | faggad. (various references) | |
Norwegian | risknippe. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aggotfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | molho (cluster, dish gravy, fagot, gavel, gravy, sauce, sheaf, truss, tuft), feixe (bottle, cluster, fagot, gavel, pack, sheaf, truss). (various references) | |
Romanian | snop (bundle, sheaf, truss, tuft), sarcinã de vreascuri, sarcinã (assignment, burden, capacity, charge, gestation, load, lot, mission, obligation, onus, pack, part, pregnancy, quantity, target, task, trouble, weight), pisãlog (bore, bothersome, pesky, pestiferous, pestle), persoanã neplãcutã, homosexual (gay, homo, homosexual, Nancy, paederast, pansy, pederast, queer, sissy), ardere pe rug. (various references) | |
Russian | связка (band, bunch, bundle, chord, copula, ligament, truss), фашинник (faggot wood), фашина, вязанка хвороста (faggot band, fagot). (various references) | |
Scottish | cual (a faggot, burden). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naramak suvog pruća, naporan rad (fag, labor intensive, labour intensive, travail). (various references) | |
Spanish | fajina (fascine, fascine mattress, fascine pole, mattress, round stock, shock). (various references) | |
Swedish | risknippe. (various references) | |
Thai | เหล็กมั", ชายรักร่วมเพศ (arse-bandit, fag, sausage jockey), คนรักร่วมเพศชาย, มั"ฟืน. (various references) | |
Turkish | sakatat yemeği (fagot), ibne (catamite, fag, fagot, fruit, queer, sod, swish), homoseksüel erkek (fag, fagot, fairy, pansy, pansy boy), çalı-çırpı demeti (fagot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | оберемок хмизу (fagot). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fasceis, fascis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | fagot. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "faggot": faggoted, faggoting, faggotings, faggots. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "faggot" (pronounced fa"gut) |
| 4 | -a" g u t | agate, maggot. |
| 3 | -g u t | aggregate, argot, bigot, ergot, frigate, gigot, ingot, legate, nugget, spigot, surrogate, target. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-g-o-t" | |
-1 letter: fagot. | |
-2 letters: agog, goat, toga. | |
-3 letters: aft, ago, fag, fat, fog, gag, gat, goa, got, oaf, oat, oft, tag, tao, tog. | |
-4 letters: ag, at, fa, go, of, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-g-o-t" | |
+1 letter: faggots. | |
+2 letters: faggoted, fagoting. | |
+3 letters: faggoting, fagotings. | |
+4 letters: faggotings. | |
+5 letters: antifogging, footdragger, isografting. | |
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