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fag⋅got

1  [fag-uht]
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–noun British.
fagot.

fag⋅got

2  [fag-uht]
–noun
Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a male homosexual.
Origin:
1910–15, Americanism; cf. faggot a contemptuous term for a woman (from ca. 1590), perh. the same word as fagot

Related forms:
fag⋅got⋅y, fag⋅got⋅ty, adjective

fag⋅ot

  [fag-uht]
–noun
1. a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
2. a bundle; bunch.
3. a bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded, hammered, or rolled together at high temperature.
4. bouquet garni.
–verb (used with object)
5. to bind or make into a fagot.
6. to ornament with fagoting.
Also, British, faggot.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF, OF; of obscure orig.

Related forms:
fag⋅ot⋅er, noun
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fag·got 1   (fāg'ət)   
n.   & v.
Variant of fagot.
fag·got 2   (fāg'ət)   
n.   Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

[Perhaps from faggot, variant of fagot, bundle, lump, old woman.]
fag·ot also fag·got   (fāg'ət)   
n.  

  1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.

  2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.

tr.v.   fag·ot·ed also fag·got·ed, fag·ot·ing also fag·got·ing, fag·ots also fag·gots

  1. To bind into a fagot; bundle.

  2. To decorate with fagoting.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal, possibly from Vulgar Latin *facus, from Greek phakelos, bundle.]
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