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▪ I. faggot, fagot, n.|ˈfægət|
Forms: 4 faget(t, 4–6 faggott, 5 fagatt, -ot(t, 6 fagget, Sc. faggat, 4– fagot, 5– faggot. See also fagald.
[a. Fr. fagot, of unknown origin; cf. It. fa(n)gotto.]
1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees bound together:
a. for use as fuel.
a1300Cursor M. 3164 (Cott.) Ȝong ysaac a fagett broght. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxlix. (1495) 703 Thornes..ben bounde in faggottes..and brent in ouens. 1478Bury Wills (Camden) 77 The price of the c fagots iijs vjd. 1578Gude & G. Ball. (1868) 92 As the flame burning quhair it can find The faggat. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 36 Thou must take good green Faggots. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 133 To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 128 Goody begg'd a helping hand To heave her rotten faggot up. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xviii. 424 In all probability the fagot was of very various sizes.
†b. Mil. for use in fascines. Obs.
c1400Sowdone Bab. 285 Fagotis to hewe..And fille the dikes faste anoon. 1548Hall Chron. 112 Castyng faggottes into the diches. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1064 [He] would oftentimes..carrie a fagot..before him..for the raising of the mount. 1711Addison Spect. No. 165 ⁋3 The Black Prince..filled a Ditch with Faggots as successfully as the Generals of our Times do it with Fascines.
2. a. With special reference to the practice of burning heretics alive, esp. in phrase fire and faggot; † to fry a faggot, to be burnt alive; also, to bear, carry a faggot, as those did who renounced heresy. Hence fig. the punishment itself.
a1555Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 277 Running out of Germany for fear of the fagot. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribae 44 You deserued to fry a fagot. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. v. 274 Fagots were never ordained by the Apostle for arguments to confute hereticks. 1667Poole Dial. betw. Protest. & Papist (1735) 101 You answer our Arguments with Fire and Faggot. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. I. viii. 86 He should go before the cross bare-headed..carrying a faggot on his shoulder. 1741–8Watts Improv. Mind i. xiv. 195 Mitres or Faggots have been the Rewards of different Persons according as they pronounced these consecrated Syllables, or not pronounced them. 1808J. Barlow Columb. iv. 206 Racks, wheels and crosses, faggots, stakes and strings. 1868J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. I. 85 Wolsey caused them to carry a faggot to the fire..Henry placed them in the midst of actual faggots. 1888J. Gairdner in Dict. Nat. Biog. XIII. 30/2 It is not easy to answer arguments in prison, with fire and faggots in the background.
b. The embroidered figure of a faggot, which heretics who had recanted were obliged to wear on their sleeve, as an emblem of what they had merited.
1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1823in Crabb Technol. Dict.
3. In wider sense.
a. A bundle or bunch in general, e.g. of rushes, herbs, etc.
b. fig. A ‘bundle’, collection (of things not forming any genuine unity).
1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xiv. 38 Fagotis and bondellis of rede. 1545Brinklow Compl. 25 b, Yet must he..pryuyly beare a fagot of russhes in his chamber. 1555Eden Decades 5 They founde faggottes of the bones of mennes armes and legges. 1650W. Cradock in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxxiii. 1 That he may..gather the wicked into one fagot..that they may be destroyed together. 1723J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. BA §27 A Faggot of sweet Herbs. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece i. ii. 99 A little Faggot of Thyme, Savory, and Parsley. 1742H. Walpole Corr. (ed. 3) I. xxxviii. 154 My faggot of compliments. 1782in Baker Biogr. Dram. iii. (1812) 260 A faggot of utter improbabilities. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig. Wks. (Bohn) III. 214 The psalms and liturgies of churches are..a fagot of selections. 1906Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. lxi. 1638 The little bunch or fagot of herbs..usually consists of two or three sprigs of parsley, a sprig of thyme, and a bayleaf. 1960Harper's Bazaar Oct. 153/1 The traditional faggot of mixed herbs.
4. A bundle of iron or steel rods bound together.
1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 14 Item for euery last of faggottes of yron iiii. s. 1640in Entick London II. 181 For a faggot of steel 0 1d. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Faggot of Steel (in Traffick) the Quantity of 120 Pound-Weight. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 338 This is termed a faggot [of iron], being about 12 or 14 inches long, and six inches square. 1881Greener Gun 221 The bars were then..fastened into a faggot.
5. (See quot. 1851.)
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 227 He..made his supper..on ‘fagots’. This preparation..is a sort of cake, roll or ball..made of chopped liver and lights, mixed with gravy, and wrapped in pieces of pig's caul. 1858Sala Journ. due North 308 The curious viands known in cheap pork-butchery..as Faggots. 1881in Oxford Gloss. Supp.
6. a. A term of abuse or contempt applied to a woman (orig. dial.) Also in extended uses.
1591Lodge Catharos 4 b, A filbert is better than a faggot, except it be an Athenian she handfull. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Grey Dolphin, ‘What's that you say, old faggot?’ 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. xxi, She..struck at me, she did, the good-for-nothing faggot! 1882Mrs. Chamberlain W. Worc. Words 11 Faggit, a term of reproach used to children. 1900Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 278/2 To a stray cow: ‘Come out o' that, ye old faggot.’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 723 That old faggot Mrs Riordan. 1925D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 176 To me she [sc. a cow] is fractious, tiresome, and a faggot. Yet the subtle desirableness is in her, for me. 1969Sunday Mirror 9 Feb. 35 'Urry up wi' that glass o' beer, you lazy faggot!
b. A (male) homosexual. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 30 s.v. Drag, Example: ‘All the fagots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight.’ 1926Wood & Goddard Dict. Amer. Slang 16 Fagot, a chorus man; an effeminate man. 1936J. Dos Passos Big Money (1937) 273 The first thing Marge thought was how on earth she could ever have liked that fagot. 1962H. Kane Killer's Kiss xxvii. 207 Duffy was no queen, no platinum-dyed freak, no screaming faggot. 1966New Statesman 18 Mar. 392/3 The American word ‘faggot’ is making advances here over our own more humane ‘queer’. 1970New Yorker 28 Nov. 21/2 A gathering of homosexuals..a Jew, a Negro, a butch faggot, a nellie faggot.
†7. A person temporarily hired to supply a deficiency at the muster, or on the roll of a company or regiment; a dummy. Obs.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Faggots, Men Muster'd for Souldiers, not yet Listed. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 105. 4/1 You may be some Faggot to pass at a Muster. 1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake II. iii. 75 The Adjutants..came to treat and settle with me about the Fagots (Men deficient of the Number of Workmen, ordered from each Regiment). 1756Ld. Chesterfield Connoisseur cii, William, a Faggot in the First Regiment of Guards. 1802in James Milit. Dict.
8. = faggot vote.
1817Sir F. Burdett in Parl. Deb. 1368 These faggots..returned the two members to the House of Commons. 1879Daily News 16 Apr. 6/6 He..had not the slightest doubt he would win, unless he were to be swamped by faggots. 1884Truth 13 Mar. 374/1 The art of manufacturing fagots.
9. In various occasional uses: (see quots.).
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v., Faggots of Oranges, Orange-Peels turn'd or par'd very thin, in order to be preserv'd. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 287 Fagot, a billet for stowing casks. 1880E. Cornw. Gloss., Faggot..a secret and unworthy compromise.
10. attrib. and Comb., as faggot-bearer, faggot-boat, faggot-flame, faggot-maker, faggot-making, faggot-pile, faggot-steel, faggot-stick, faggot-wood. Also, faggot-brief, a dummy brief (cf. 7); faggot-drain, a drain made by placing faggots at the bottom of a trench and then covering them with earth; faggot filling-stitch = faggot-stitch; faggot-iron, iron, in the form of bars or masses, made from welding together a faggot or pile of iron bars; † faggot-spray, the refuse twigs, etc., left in making faggots; faggot-stitch, needlework in which two pieces of material are joined together by stitching resembling the faggoting of drawn-thread work; so faggot-stitching; † faggot-waisted a., arranged in pleats like a bundle of sticks. Also faggot-vote.
c1515Cocke Lorelles B. (Percy Soc.) 11 With lollers, lordaynes, and *fagot berers.
1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornful Lady ii. iii, If you 'scape with life, and take a *faggot-boat.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 97 The briefless ones..pretend to pore over ‘*faggot’ briefs.
1819Communic. Board Agric. 245 Many of these *faggot-drains have failed.
1934M. Thomas Dict. Embroidery Stitches 182 Sheaf filling stitch, also known as *faggot filling stitch. 1957M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 121/1 Fagot filling-stitch, group of parallel stitches tied together at center to form a bundle.
1842Sir A. De Vere Song of Faith 243 Turkish cimeters Not fiercelier bite than Christian *faggot-flame.
1870E. Röhrig Technol. Dict. (ed. 2) II. 219/2 *Fagot-iron, faggotted iron, das Paketeisen, das Schroteisen. Ferraille.
1584R. Scott Discov. Witchcr. v. i. 73 Three witches of great wealth..assalted a *faggot-maker. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. p. l, Originally a faggot-maker, his mode of tying up bundles excited the attention of Democritus.
1826Miss Mitford Village 2nd Ser. (1863) 408 Its long open sheds for broom and *faggot-making.
Ibid. 257 The cart-shed..and the *faggot-pile.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 204 Put some Rubbish of Lime-stones..*Faggot-spray, or the like, at the bottom of the Cases.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 234 The article known among dealers by the appellation of *faggot steel.
1523Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 13 Began to beelabour her..with a *faggotstick. a1774Goldsm. tr. Scarron's Com. Romance (1775) II. 7 The maid followed puss, with a faggot-stick in her hand.
1903Daily Chron. 13 June 8/4 A lace and canvas epaulette pelerine, the seams of which are separated by *faggot-stitch.
1928Sunday Express 3 June 8 The frills, which were not more than half an inch wide, were set in with *faggot stitching.
1581Rich Farewel Mil. Prof. (1846) 218 Their dublettes some⁓tyme *faggot wasted above the navill; sometymes cowe⁓beallied belowe the flanckes.
1704Collect. Voy. (Church.) III. 727/2 Boats came..to fetch *Faggot-wood.
▪ II. faggot, v.|ˈfægət|
[f. prec. Cf. Fr. fagoter.]
1. a. trans. To make into a faggot or faggots; to bind up in or as in a faggot. Also, to faggot up.
1598Florio, Affascinare..to fagot. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 33 Hermes..with his Wife, Children, and whole family..were all faggotted together to make one great bone-fire. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 162 All their brush being faggoted into the Faggot. 1669J. Flavel Husbandry Spiritualised (1832) 210 Growing amongst them that shall shortly be cut down and faggoted up for hell. 1721R. Keith tr. T. à Kempis' Solil. Soul ii. 132 Then shall they be faggotted together in Bundles for the Fire, who were here Companions in Drunkenness. 1786Cowper Let. 8 May, The dunce..cut down and faggoted up the whole grove. 1857Landor (title) Dry Sticks Fagoted.
b. transf. and fig.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. viii. §5 Titles packed and fagotted vp together. 1685Roxb. Ball. V. 542 He..faggotted his Notions as they fell, And if they rhim'd and rattled all was well. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 173 The..seeds are not..faggotted together with so strong an union. 1784Hare Vict. Faith 38 Things essentially and substantially different, bundled and fagoted together for the occasion. 1882Mozley Remin. I. lv. 352 [Newman] fagoted Hampden's pamphlet..with several other scandals..in the ‘Foundations of the Faith Assailed’.
†c. To bind (persons) in couples; also, to bind hand and foot. Obs.
1607G. Wilkins Miseries Inforced Marriage v, Then [they] fagotted you and the fool, your man, back to back. 1725New Cant. Dict., Faggot, to bind Hand and Foot. 1721–1800in Bailey.
d. Embroidery. To ornament (needlework) by faggoting; also, to join (two pieces of material) by faggot-stitch.
1900M. E. Wilkins Parson Lord 117 She has hem-stitched and fagoted everything. 1904Daily Chron. 3 May 5/4 They are joined with an insertion, or are faggoted together to make kimonas for morning wear.
2. Metall. To fasten together bars or rods of iron preparatory to reheating and welding.
1861W. Fairbairn Iron vi. 102 These [puddle bars] are cut up and piled regularly together or faggotted. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 175/1 The axles should be made of the best scrap iron fagoted.
3. To set (a person) on the faggots preparatory to burning; lit. and fig. rare.
1543Joye Confut. Winchester 24 Fagetting, burninge and slaying the true professours..of gods holy word. 18..Landor Wks (1868) II. 156 The poet is staked and faggoted by his surrounding brethren.
4. a. intr. To make or bind faggots.
1874T. Hardy Madding Crowd II. x. 108 Heaps of white chips..showed that woodmen had been faggoting. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S.C. 76 After they have finished faggoting, the women rake up the fragments for their cottage fires.
†b. To carry or wear a faggot in token of recantation; to recant. Obs.
1535Shaxton in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxi. 149 Making onely his reformation in words; and neither faggoting nor..any open revocation.
5. (See quot.)
1880E. Cornw. Gloss., Faggot..a man who in the wrestling ring, sells his back, is said to faggot. |