Faggot

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
  • 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:
  • 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 (1907–1963)

    In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
    —J.M. (James Matthew)