Faggot
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Faggot derivies through the French language fagot from the Latin facus, meaning a bundle (see fasces), the English language word being attested from the 13th century in the meaning of a bundle of sticks or branches, usually bound together. It is most commonly used in reference to wood intended for use as firewood.
- What fool hath added water to the sea,
- Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?
- (William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, scene III)
- 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.
- Fagot was the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighter.
See also fag. Not to be confused with fagotto.