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faggot |
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faggot1 esp US, fagot [ˈfægət] n 1. a bundle of sticks or twigs, esp when bound together and used as fuel 2. (Engineering / Metallurgy) a bundle of iron bars, esp a box formed by four pieces of wrought iron and filled with scrap to be forged into wrought iron 3. (Cookery) a ball of chopped meat, usually pork liver, bound with herbs and bread and eaten fried 4. a bundle of anything vb (tr) 1. to collect into a bundle or bundles 2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Knitting & Sewing) Needlework to do faggoting on (a garment, piece of cloth, etc.) [from Old French, perhaps from Greek phakelos bundle] faggot2 n Slang chiefly US and Canadian a male homosexual Often shortened to fag [special use of faggot1] faggoty adj Faggot a bundle or bunch of anything; also a bundle of material, esp. wood, used for fuel. See also fascine. Examples: faggot of compliments, 1742; of herbs, 1741; of iron or steel rods, 1640; of reeds, 1489; of rushes, 1545; of selections, 1854; of sticks; of thorns, 1398; of twigs; of utter improbabilities, 1782.
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Translations faggot1 [ˈfægət] n (Am) (offensive) → frocio (offensive) faggot1 [ˈfægət] n (Am) (offensive) → frocio (offensive) faggot2 [ˈfægət] n a. (wood) → fascina b. (Brit) (Culin) faggots npl polpette a base di fegato di maiale faggot2 [ˈfægət] n a. (wood) → fascina b. (Brit) (Culin) faggots npl polpette a base di fegato di maiale How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He ordered his servants to bring in a faggot of sticks, and said to his eldest son: "Break it. One of the women sitting opposite her threw a faggot upon the dying embers of the fire between them. --A short distance further lay a little faggot of the same shoots bound together with a strip of bark. |
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