Faggot, faggots, or faggoting may refer to:
- faggot or fagot, branch or twig, or bundle of these
- Fascine, bundle of brushwood used in civil and military engineering
- Fasces, ancient symbol of an axe bound in a bundle of rods
- Faggot (unit), archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks
- Death by burning, metonymically referred to by the faggots which fuel the fire
- Ashen faggot (or ashton fagot), Christmas wassail tradition in the West Country of England
- Arts and crafts
- Faggot (food), British meatball commonly made of pork offal
- Faggoting (metalworking), forge welding a bundle of bars of iron and steel
- Faggoting (knitting), variation of lace knitting in which every stitch is a yarn over or a decrease
- Faggoting stitch, featherstitch, or Cretan stitch, embroidery stitch used to make decorative seams or to attach insertions
- Bassoon, variously called fagotto, faggot, fagott, fagot
- Culture
- Faggot (slang), pejorative, now usually for a gay man, also having older and derived pejorative senses
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- Faggots (novel), 1978 novel by Larry Kramer
- Faggot, a track from the stand-up comedy album Deadbeat Hero by Doug Stanhope
- Faggot, a song by Mindless Self Indulgence:
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- a track from Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
- a track from Our Pain, Your Gain
- The Faggot, 1876 book by Charles Tylor
- Nicholas Faggot, character in the 1824 novel Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
- Faggot voter, hireling eligible to vote as nominal titleholder of part of a subdivided property
- Science
- Faggot cell, blast cell type found in acute promyelocytic leukemia
- Eumeta crameri or faggot worm, from the bundles of twigs it binds to itself
- Surname
- Jacob Faggot (1699–1777), Swedish scientist
Famous quotes containing the word faggot:
“she gives her children neither sense nor money
Who slouch arouond the world with a gesture and a brogue
And a faggot of useless memories.”
—Louis MacNeice (19071963)
“In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)