Faggot

Faggot derives through the Old French fagot from the Latin facus ("bundle") (see also fasces), coming into Middle English on or around the 13th century as a reference to a bundle of sticks or branches meant for firewood. It has also been used on occasion to refer to wood for funeral pyres or a burning at the stake.

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:What fool hath added water to the sea,

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:Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?

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:—William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, scene III

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The word has other meanings in modern English:

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• A faggot in metallurgy 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 in Newfoundland is a pile of half-dried codfish.
• A faggot in the United Kingdom is a dish of chopped meat and herbs rolled into a ball and fried.
• Faggot is a pejorative slang term used to refer to a gay man.
• Faggots is a novel by Larry Kramer
• A faggot is an archaic unit of measurement.
• "Fagot" was the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighter.
• "Fagotto" is the Italian word for bassoon, named so because early versions of the instrument looked like a bundle of sticks.
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Old French: Old French is a term sometimes used to refer to the langue d'oïl, the continuum of varieties of Romance language spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland during the period roughly from 1000 to 1300 A.D....

Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

Fasces: Fasces (the plural, almost a plurale tantum, of the Latin word fascis, 'bundle') symbolise summary power and jurisdiction....




Faggot related Images and Photos (experimental)

Faggot Gatherer in a Clearing in a Wood

Winter Landscape with Faggot Gatherers Conversing on a Frozen Lake

Wooded Landscape with a Faggot Gatherer