faggot
noun /ˈfæɡət/
/ˈfæɡət/
- (British English) meat cut into small pieces and mixed with bread to form a ball, then baked or fried and eaten hotTopics Foodc2
- (also fag)(North American English, taboo, slang) an offensive word for a gay man
- a bunch of sticks tied together, used for burning on a fire
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘bundle of sticks for fuel’): from Old French fagot, from Italian fagotto, based on Greek phakelos ‘bundle’.