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UK
/fˈæɡət/
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[ US /ˈfæɡət/ ]
[ US /ˈfæɡət/ ]
VERB
- fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
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bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
faggot up the sticks -
ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
He fagotted the blouse for his wife
NOUN
- a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- offensive term for a homosexual man
How To Use faggot In A Sentence
- And he knows it not only from empathizing as an African American where the n-word has been hurled at him, but he also knows of the harm the word "faggot" engenders from being called one. Irene Monroe: Tracy Morgan's Homophobic Rant Was About Black Manhood
- He then addressed them in these words: "My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies;
- Featherstitch or feather stitch and Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch are embroidery techniques made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.
- Are you are aware that faggot means bundle of sticks?
- ‘Deforcement — spulzie-stouthrief — masterful rescue!’ exclaimed Peter Peebles, scandalized at the resistance offered to the law in the person of Nicholas Faggot. Redgauntlet
- Ships being breamed at a careenage would have fires built under them to burn off marine growth and faggots of reeds would be in demand for the purpose and might well have been sent down river in boat load quantities.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Youre damn straight I do. Id rather you were dead than be a fuckin faggot.
- His faggots were legendary. ‘We opened in 1994; eight months later, we had a Michelin star, one of the fastest ever to be won.’
- Trade Work: Ribbon run on webbing for suspenders, infants 'dresses -- eight different styles, children's aprons -- two different styles, hemstitching and embroidery for yokes, ruffling -- hem and hemstitched, faggoting. The Making of a Trade School
- Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether. Ulysses