Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of fagot.
- n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See fagot, fagoting.
Wiktionary
- n. rare, dated in US A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
- n. chiefly UK A bundle of sticks tied together.
- n. obsolete Burdensome baggage.
- n. this sense?)(obsolete, pejorative) An old woman.
- n. Ireland, colloquial, pejorative, obsolete A shrewish woman.
- n. derogatory, vulgar, colloquial, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand A gay man.
- n. pejorative, vulgar, US, colloquial An annoying or inconsiderate person.
- n. Australia, Ireland, New Zealand (obsolete, in North America) The cast off end of a smoked cigarette.
- n. chiefly UK A meatball made from pork.
- v. Alternative form of fagot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Slang, disparaging a male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive.
- n. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together; -- same as fagot{1}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- v. ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
- n. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- v. fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
- v. bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old French fagot ("bundle of sticks"), from Old Italian fagotto, diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Latin fascis ("bundle of wood"). See also fag. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps from faggot, variant of fagot, bundle, lump, old woman. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word faggot was tossed about by Marlin like a threat of some kind.”
“You cannot use the term faggot in a friendly way, just as you cannot use trannie or nigger in camaraderie.”
“When I was done hosing that stuff down, I sat in the office again, the word faggot and all that uglinesseven out there in wonderful Wisconsinsettling in my mind like a message.”
“Number two: Dj Hi-Tek says the word faggot doesn't hold any power over him.”
“Washington knows of both the psychological damage and the physical harm the word "faggot" engenders.”
The Huffington Post: Irene Monroe: Tracy Morgan's Homophobic Rant Was About Black Manhood
“And he knows it not only from empathizing as an African American where the n-word has been hurled at him, but he also knows of the harm the word "faggot" engenders from being called one.”
The Huffington Post: Irene Monroe: Tracy Morgan's Homophobic Rant Was About Black Manhood
“Not everyone who calls you a faggot is actually thinking about balls and assholes the way you do all day.”
“He may be anÂignorantÂor thoughtless person, but I no more think he is a homophobe for using the word "faggot" than I believe any of you areÂhomophobesÂfor using the word "sissy.”
“He may be anignorantor thoughtless person, but I no more think he is a homophobe for using the word "faggot" than I believe any of you arehomophobesfor using the word "sissy.”
“However, it's been a slow journey for society to move to a point where gay sporting icons like former Wales international Gareth Thomas are the inspiration for movies and Australian swimming icon, Stephanie Rice, is forced to make a public apology for using the word "faggot" on Twitter.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘faggot’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Offensive Words
The worst of the bunch, bring um on
twat, asshole, pussy, dick, cunt, whore, slut, cum, blowjob, fuck, bitch, fanny and 42 more...
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Compound words by appearance, not def...
Requirements:
• The word should be a compound.
• Once divided, the individual definitions should not describe the compound itself.
• For sanity's sake, any word that also ha...pinion, electrode, faggot, accordion, display, lotion, lithe, mobile, wonton, spittoon, home, donkey and 10 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 457 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Pleasing to the Ear
swashbuckle, nerf, enunciate, ambivalent, perambulist, curmudgeon, longitude, coagulate, saskatchewan, wood, faggot, dodongo and 33 more...
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faelan's Words
what i just thought of, what do you think?!
lovelorn, remnant, felt, bleeding, asunder, plasma, faggot, dirigible, circumambulate, sanguinous, docile, ferile and 3 more...
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oh dear
terms of endearment - this list is rated X.
( personal list, randomness )
also see:
sweetie pants, big mamma biscuit, sugar pants, cheese tits, honey poo, pussy lips, snuggly poo, sweetpea, sugar tits, fuck puppet, sex slave, sleepy head and 44 more... -
GLBT
lesbian, transgender, bisexual, gay, dyke, fag, faggot, homo, queen, queer, pouf, gender rights and 17 more...
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Queer Words
As many queer related words as I can come up with ^_^
faggot, fag, dyke, gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, transgender, gender queer, queer, bi, homosexual and 13 more...
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Stupid Words
Words I have problem spelling, pronouncing, or plain don't like.
resumé, souix, gigantic, masochistic, sadistic, rudimentary, morality, chaste, coursepacket, necessary, faggot
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Riboflavin's Words
aquavit, chicken, neuromancer, tits, cephalopod, riboflavin, fuck, mind banana, tasteflex, balrog, cropsy, pod and 45 more...
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too many faggot scenes
In response to a recent conversation on Wordie. Not intended as the Geto Boys intended the line, I'm sure.
fag, queen, homo, fairy, dyke, faggot, fudge packer, sister, sissy, queer, butt pirate
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2nd 30 words a minute list
depreciate, unforbearing, unscrupulous, scrupulous, scruple, to make scruple, penitence, penitent, contrite, queer, faggot, epithet and 25 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for faggot.

marky Fagot: Worst Last Name Mar 4, 2010
madmouth Mark Tietjens to brother Chris:
"'I'd not like to sleep with that wife of yours. She's too athletic. It'd be like sleeping with a bundle of faggots. I suppose though you're a pair of turtle doves...'"
Ford Maddox Ford, Parade's End, p.219 Sep 21, 2009
vanishedone Google is now advertising a site called 'Gay-parship'. Tasteful. Dec 20, 2008
vanishedone On the page for a word which can be a derogatory term for a homosexual (defs. 7 and 8), Google manages to place a jewellery ad featuring what I think is meant to be a lesbian kiss. Is Google under the spell of WeirdNet...? May 3, 2008
reesetee Prolagus, you may know this (because you're from Italy, not because of any political affiliation)--is this word not related to the symbol for Fascism, the fasces (a bundle of sticks)? May 3, 2008
frindley Also another name for bassoon. German spelling "Fagott" and Italian "fagotto". From the French "fagot", meaning a bundle of sticks. May 3, 2008
Prolagus Did anyone notice that faggot stitch is apparently related to scarf? and they are also weirdnet twins... May 3, 2008
reesetee I'm sure they could make room in the dictionary for that definition, skipvia. After all, it has so many other meanings already. ;-> Feb 16, 2008
sionnach You mean this isn't just another word for the bassoon? Feb 15, 2008
reesetee Kewpid, are you referring to the image I posted way back when? Totally coincidence; honest. Here, have another.
Besides, I like pink triangles. Feb 15, 2008
kewpid Oh hey, pink triangles! That's not even remotely suggestive… Feb 15, 2008
chained_bear I agree, u. I nominate... well, I don't really want to nominate this word page. Oh! I know: peeler.
John, I think adding WeirdNet definitions has enriched this site in ways too numerous to count. No kidding. The conversations it's spawned are awesome, and I've learned a lot (whether I wanted to or not). Nov 28, 2007
reesetee Wait, I know what this is! As trivet's citation describes, it looks like this.
Wow, I'm as weird as WeirdNet. Nov 28, 2007
uselessness It's decided. If we're doing a List of the Year award, we also need something for the Most Unexpected WeirdNet Definition. Nov 28, 2007
trivet See here. Nov 28, 2007
yarb Astonishing. Nov 27, 2007
chained_bear Wow! That's a good one! What the hell's a faggot stitch? Nov 27, 2007
john Perhaps the weirdest WeirdNet yet. I've never ever heard of this definition. Nov 27, 2007