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Faggot

Faggot is a very old word in English, deriving through the French fagot from the Latin facus, meaning a bundle.
  • A faggot is a bundle of sticks or branches, usually bound together. It is most commonly used in reference to wood intended for use as firewood.
  • In metallurgy, faggot refers to a bundle of iron pieces destined to be worked into bars by hammering or rolling at a high enough temperature to fuse them together.
  • A faggot is a type of food eaten mainly in the United Kingdom.
  • Faggot is a slang term used (usually pejoratively) to refer to gay men.
  • A faggot is an archaic unit of measurement.
See also fag. Not to be confused with fagotto.
''What fool hath added water to the sea,
Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?
(William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, scene III)

 

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