faggot

Etymology
From, from , of origin. Unlikely from 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬, as these appear later than the Old French term. Compare also and 🇨🇬. Perhaps from a diminutive of, from. Compare also. . See also:.

The senses relating to persons, though possibly originating as an extension of the sense "bundle of sticks", may have been reinforced by, from , related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)   A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying.
 * 2)  Burdensome baggage.
 * 3) A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
 * 4)  A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
 * 5)  A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork.
 * 6)  An annoying or inconsiderate person.
 * 7)  A shrewish woman.
 * 8)  A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
 * 9) * 1914, Louis E. Jackson and C.R. Hellyer, Vocabulary of Criminal Slang (Portland, OR: Modern Printing Co., 1914) page 30:
 * Drag, Example: “All the fagots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight.
 * 1) * 2012, Margaret Cho, quoted (mimicking Karl Lagerfeld) in On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
 * Of course I'm a faggot, darling. I'm a flaming faggot, darling. I am fanning the flames of my faggotry.
 * 1)  A man considered weak, effeminate, timid, pathetic, emotional, non-heteronormative in some way
 * 2)  A soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not really existing.
 * 3)  A faggot voter.
 * 4)  A lazy, weak, work-shy person.
 * 1)  A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
 * 2) * 1914, Louis E. Jackson and C.R. Hellyer, Vocabulary of Criminal Slang (Portland, OR: Modern Printing Co., 1914) page 30:
 * Drag, Example: “All the fagots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight.
 * 1) * 2012, Margaret Cho, quoted (mimicking Karl Lagerfeld) in On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
 * Of course I'm a faggot, darling. I'm a flaming faggot, darling. I am fanning the flames of my faggotry.
 * 1)  A man considered weak, effeminate, timid, pathetic, emotional, non-heteronormative in some way
 * 2)  A soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not really existing.
 * 3)  A faggot voter.
 * 4)  A lazy, weak, work-shy person.
 * 1) * 2012, Margaret Cho, quoted (mimicking Karl Lagerfeld) in On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
 * Of course I'm a faggot, darling. I'm a flaming faggot, darling. I am fanning the flames of my faggotry.
 * 1)  A man considered weak, effeminate, timid, pathetic, emotional, non-heteronormative in some way
 * 2)  A soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not really existing.
 * 3)  A faggot voter.
 * 4)  A lazy, weak, work-shy person.
 * 1)  A faggot voter.
 * 2)  A lazy, weak, work-shy person.
 * 1)  A lazy, weak, work-shy person.

Usage notes

 * The usage to refer to the British meatball delicacy (sense 5) is not widely known outside the United Kingdom and Ireland, due to the prevalence of the usage as a homophobic slur (sense 8) in other regions, it is likely to be misconstrued as hate speech by those unaware of it.   In contexts where the word can be interpreted as an allusion to homosexuals, this sense can be considered offensive even in the United Kingdom and Ireland, despite the homophobic slur not being in widespread use there.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish: træknude, brændestykke
 * French:
 * Galician:, cavaco
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Maori: motunga
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: ffagod


 * Arabic: وَبِيلَة
 * Coptic: ϭⲱⲗⲡ
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Irish: brosna
 * Istriot: faseîna
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: mandonguilla de porc
 * Irish: feoilfhagóid
 * Spanish: albóndiga de puerco, albóndiga de cerdo
 * Welsh: ffagotsen


 * German:, , , , Widerling,
 * Polish: ,
 * Spanish: