faggot

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  1. noun Variant of fagot.
  2. noun Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

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  • Just as the faggot-maker and his wife had come home without their children, a great gentleman of the village sent to pay them two guineas, for work they had done for him, which he had owed them so long that they never thought of getting a farthing of it. —  The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew
  • I'm hungry Wait a little; you shall have it presently Then the farmer took up a pine-faggot which was burning in the stove, as if pondering and then ran out, and locked all the doors on the outside It was a cold autumn night. —  The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
  • What's your name, you old faggot--eh My name | is Scrahag, your honor,' says I, 'one of the Scrahags of Ballycumpiatee--an honest and dacint family, sir; but if your honor would buy the eggs, at any rate, and hatch them yourself,' says I to him (for she had a large stock of Irish humor), 'you know, sir, you could have the chickens at first cost.' —  Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • A man that is traitor to his lord is worthy to be torn by horses and burnt upon the faggot, and wherever his ashes fall no grass shall grow and all tillage is waste, and the trees and the green things die. —  The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
  • Sometimes, indeed, the axe, and halter, or the faggot is shewed first; but sometimes, again, it is without that warning. —  Works of John Bunyan — Complete
 

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  1. Perhaps from faggot, variant of fagot, bundle, lump, old woman.
 

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