Faggot


 
 
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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