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fag·got2 Audio pronunciation of "faggot" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fgt)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
[Perhaps from faggot, variant of fagot, bundle, lump, old woman.]
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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fag·ot also fag·got Audio pronunciation of "faggot" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fgt)
n.
1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.
2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.
tr.v. fag·ot·ed, also fag·got·ed fag·ot·ing, fag·got·ing fag·ots, fag·gots
1. To bind into a fagot; bundle.
2. To decorate with fagoting.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal, possibly from Vulgar Latin *facus, from Greek phakelos, bundle.]
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faggot
n 1: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf] 2: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together [syn: fagot] v 1: ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife" [syn: fagot] 2: fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them [syn: fagot] 3: bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks" [syn: fagot, faggot up]
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As you see faggot to describe a homosexual is only a slang term, as a group of intelectuall people on this board I'd like ot hope that we could see the difference in using offisive slang and words that actually describe something. JMO
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