Faggot fn, a ntemptuo term ed to refer to a gay person, pecially a gay man. See more." name="scriptn
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A ntemptuo term ed to refer to a gay person, pecially a gay man. However, faggot (but not fag) is sometim ed wh the gay muny as a posive term of words om faggotfag·got·y, fag·got·ty, adjectiveWords Nearby faggotFafnirfagfagaceofag endFaggifaggotfaggotgfaggotryfaggot votefaggyfag hagOther fns for faggot (2 of 2) Unabridged.
Brish Dictnary fns for faggot (1 of 2)nouna bundle of sticks or twigs, p when bound together and ed as fuela bundle of iron bars, p a box formed by four piec of wrought iron and filled wh scrap to be fed to wrought irona ball of chopped meat, ually pork liver, bound wh herbs and bread and eaten ieda bundle of anythgverb(tr)to llect to a bundle or bundlneedlework to do faggotg on (a garment, piece of cloth, etc)Orig of faggot1C14: om Old French, perhaps om Greek phakelos bundleBrish Dictnary fns for faggot (2 of 2)nounslang, maly US and Canadian a male homosexual: Often shortened to: fagOrig of faggot2C20: special e of faggot 1Derived forms of faggotfaggoty, adjectiveColls English Dictnary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digal Edn. 2)"male homosexual, " 1914, Amerin English slang, probably om earlier ntemptuo term for "woman" (1590s), pecially an old and unpleasant one, reference to faggot (n. It may also be rerced by Yiddish faygele "homosexual" (n.
3, 1889]Other obsolete Brish sens of faggot were "man hired to ary service merely to fill out the ranks at mter" (1700) and "vote manufactured for party purpos" (1817) explanatn that male homosexuals were lled faggots bee they were burned at the stake as punishment is an etymologil urban legend. Burng sometim was a punishment meted out to homosexuals Christian Europe (on the suggtn of the Biblil fate of Sodom and Gomorrah), but England, where parliament had ma homosexualy a pal offense 1533, hangg was the method prcribed.
From “gay” to “poofter” to “fairy” - the words ed by others to fe gay people n say a great al more about them than . * fagott gay *
Use of faggot nnectn wh public executns had long been obscure English historil trivia by the time the word began to be ed for "male homosexual" 20th century Amerin slang, whereas the ntemptuo slang word for "woman" ( mon wh the other possible sourc or fluenc listed here) was active e early 20c., by D.