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单词 faggot
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faggot

1
[ fag-uht ]
/ ˈfæg ət /

usage alert about faggot

The terms faggot and fag are both used with disparaging intent and are perceived as highly insulting. However, faggot (but not fag ) is sometimes used within the gay community as a positive term of self-reference.

noun Slang.

Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a gay person, especially a gay man.
Offensive. a contemptible or dislikable person.

Origin of faggot

1
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; perhaps from faggot, a chiefly British contemptuous term for a woman; perhaps the same word as fagot

OTHER WORDS FROM faggot

fag·got·y, fag·got·ty, adjective

Words nearby faggot

Fafnir, fag, fagaceous, fag end, Faggi, faggot, faggoting, faggotry, faggot vote, faggy, fag hag

Definition for faggot (2 of 2)

faggot2
[ fag-uht ]
/ ˈfæg ət /

noun British.

fagot.
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British Dictionary definitions for faggot (1 of 2)

faggot1

esp US fagot

/ (ˈfæɡət) /

noun

a bundle of sticks or twigs, esp when bound together and used as fuel
a bundle of iron bars, esp a box formed by four pieces of wrought iron and filled with scrap to be forged into wrought iron
a ball of chopped meat, usually pork liver, bound with herbs and bread and eaten fried
a bundle of anything

verb (tr)

to collect into a bundle or bundles
needlework to do faggoting on (a garment, piece of cloth, etc)

Word Origin for faggot

C14: from Old French, perhaps from Greek phakelos bundle

British Dictionary definitions for faggot (2 of 2)

faggot2
/ (ˈfæɡət) /

noun

slang, mainly US and Canadian a male homosexualOften shortened to: fag

Derived forms of faggot

faggoty, adjective

Word Origin for faggot

C20: special use of faggot 1
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