fagot, faggot
(noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf
(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man
faggot, fagot, faggot up
(verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; “faggot up the sticks”
faggot, fagot
(verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
faggot, fagot
(verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; “He fagotted the blouse for his wife”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fagot (plural fagots)
Alternative form of faggot
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
(music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
(UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
fagot (third-person singular simple present fagots, present participle fagoting, simple past and past participle fagoted)
(transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
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Source: Wiktionary
Fag"ot n. Etym: [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. Fagotto.]
1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.
2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: A bassoon. See Fagotto.
4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison.
5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots.
– Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]
Fag"ot v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting.]
Definition: To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
