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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 perjoratively) to refer to gay men
  • A faggot is an archaic unit of measurement

See also fag.

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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