faggotn.adj.
/ˈfaɡət/, U.S. /ˈfæɡət/ A. n.
I. A bundle or bunch, and related senses.† 4. A long, thin strip of candied orange or lemon peel; a small bundle of such strips. Obsolete.
1.
a. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or brushwood tied together for use as fuel.See also fire faggot n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > for firewood
woodc888
faggotc1312
firewood1377
starriganc1894
society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > a pile, stack, or bundle
faggotc1312
kida1350
faggald1488
bavin1528
woodpile1552
fire pile1577
brush-faggot1606
stalder1611
figate1645
kid-stack1653
stack-wood1664
brush1699
bavin-band1725
pimpa1731
bavin-stack1759
bundle-wood1879
wood-heap1943
c1312 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 18 (MED) iiijc fagotis xviij d.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxlix. 1047 Þornes..beþ ybounde to knucches oþer to fakettis and ybrende in ouenes.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1961 Wyth a faget on myn hond for to settyn on a fyre.
1478 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 77 The price of the c fagotes iij s. vj d.
a1525 (?1474) Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 399 (MED) His ffagott of wodde of an ob. schal-be iij schaftmond and a halfe a-bout and a yerde of lenthe.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 106 As the flame burning, quhair it can find The faggat.
1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver vii. 42 Thou must take good greene Faggots.
1673 Converted Fryar 7 Having sent for some Fagots, and procured Fire, he took his Beads..and the whole Habit of his Order, and there very reverendly Burnt them.
1729 F. Midon Hist. Masaniello 51 They carried Faggots upon their Backs, and Fire and Pitch in their Hands.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 133 To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 128 Goody begg'd a helping hand To heave her rotten faggot up.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xviii. 424 In all probability the fagot was of very various sizes.
1938 Manch. Guardian 19 Feb. 10/5 Soon there is only a glowing mass of ash which fades to greyness; then another faggot is thrown on and up goes the blaze again.
2014 D. C. Manners Limitless Sky v. xliv. 131 He was carrying..fresh faggots for the fire tied across his back.
b. A long, cylindrical bundle of twigs or brushwood used in construction or military operations, esp. for filling in marshy ground or for strengthening the sides of embankments, ditches, or trenches. Now historical and rare.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines > components of
faggot1408
randing1829
web1834
1408–9 Acct. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E 101/44/11(3)) m. 2 In vj fagottes long'..pro schorres & postes pro supportacione dicte barg'.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 285 Fagotis to hewe..And fille the Dikes faste anoon.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxij Castyng faggottes into the diches.
1570 G. Fenton tr. J. de Serres Disc. Ciuile Warres Fraunce ii. 135 The catholikes were busie to releue their breaches with beds, faggots, and other matters apt to fill vp.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 1064 He..would oftentimes himselfe carrie a fagot..before him vpon his horse, for the raising of the mount.
1656 T. Lancaster tr. F. Strada Siege of Antwerp 102 Hee diligently applyed himselfe to the causey of Covenstene, and carefully fortifyed it, being repaired with pyles, faggots, and earth.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶3 The Black Prince..filled a Ditch with Faggots as successfully as the Generals of our times do it with Fascines.
1794 C. Hassall Gen. View Agric. Carmarthen 27 Laying the wood along the drain, is not the thing, even if it be made into faggots.
1809 Ess. Theory & Pract. Art War II. 414 Faggots and sand-bags are placed between the gabions, to resist any quick discharge of musketry.
1882 R. S. Burn Pract. Directory Improvem. Landed Prop. I. ii. iv. 195/2 A very simple method of confining the banks, such as by planking, or fascines, or faggots with earth backing.
1951 A. W. Boyd Country Parish iii. 35 Great use was made of ‘gorse-kids’ (faggots) which were laid in drains and as a foundation for roads.
2.
a. A faggot (sense A. 1a), used in the burning alive of people regarded as heretics; (hence by metonymy, in singular with the) this method of execution. Also, esp. in to carry (also bear) a faggot and variants: a punishment in which a person regarded as a heretic, or a person who has recanted heresy, must publicly carry a faggot for a certain time as a mark of shame. Cf. stake n.1 1b. Now historical.See also fire and faggot at Phrases 1 and to fry a faggot at Phrases 2.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > burning > for heresy
faggot?a1425
fire and faggot (also faggots)1528
faggoting1545
Bonnering1613
auto-da-fé1697
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 35 (MED) Scho was ledd and bun by a stake and fagotes of thornes and oþer wode laid aboute hir.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 36 (MED) I wold þu wer in Smythfeld, & I wold beryn a fagot to bren þe wyth.
1530 Thorpe's Examinacion To Rdr. sig. A.ij Other that for feare of deathe haue abiured and caryed fagottes.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 985/1 Running out of Germanye for feare of the fagot.
1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 51 The wheele, greediron, racke and faggot.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iii. v. 274 Fagots were never ordained by the Apostle for arguments to confute hereticks.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials I. viii. 86 He should go before the cross bare-headed..carrying a faggot on his shoulder.
1741 I. Watts Improvem. 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.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 144 Racks, wheels and crosses, faggots, stakes and strings.
1899 J. M. Faulkner Hist. Oxfordshire xii. 149 They [sc. the heretics of Burford] were once to bear a faggot at a general procession of heretics at Uxbridge.
1957 Irish Times 2 Mar. 6/2 Those disquieting thoughts which were got rid of in ages of faith by means of the faggot and the rack.
1999 M. Dowling Fisher of Men v. 108 Eventually they recanted, and carried the faggot at Paul's Cross.
b. An embroidered or painted figure of a faggot, which people regarded as heretics, or those who had recanted heresy, were obliged to wear on their sleeve. Chiefly historical. Now rare.
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1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 944/1 Constrayned..to weare a fagot vppon his coate all his lyfe.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 165 Cruelty still continued and increased on the poor Lollards (as they call them) after abjuration, forced to wear the fashion of a faggot wrought in thread, or painted on their left sleeves, all the dayes of their lives.
1682 England's Remembrancer 45 He should on either sleeve wear an Embroidered faggot as a badg all his Life time.
1718 Popish Cruelty Display'd 26 They should wear the Badge of a Faggot in Flames on their Cloaths.
1746 Eng. Traveller I. 53 Some of them were enjoin'd to wear the Form of a Faggot on their Sleeve, and others were branded on the Cheek with the Letters, L for Lollard, and H for Heretick.
1826 Q. Rev. Sept. 340 He must..have worn a faggot worked in his coat, to be a mark of infamy and suspicion as long as he lived.
2003 B. Moynahan God's Bestseller ix. 119 His abject petition for forgiveness..was accepted..and the stipulation of the silken faggot was dropped.
3.
a. A bundle or bunch of reeds, herbs, flowers, etc.; esp. a small bunch of herbs for seasoning a dish. More generally: a bundle of anything bound or clustered together.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > bundle
sheafc725
handfulOE
truss12..
knitch13..
binding1388
bundle1398
faggot1447
bond1483
flaggat1487
bend-fulc1500
litch1538
thrave1606
fascicle1622
fawda1642
nitch1726
fascine1793
fasciculus1816
1447–8 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 88 (MED) The dore of the said towre..is so stondynge open and fakettes, hors, and dong, and myche other ungodely thyng..broghte theryn.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) 121 Þey mowe [make] hemselue scheues or fagettis or knycches..of drye reedis, and þerevppon legge hir liȝt armoure and so drawe ouer liȝt cariage teyed to here hors tail.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. sig. Ciijv Fagotis and bondellis of rede.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xiii. sig. D1v Yet must he..pryuyly beare a fagot of russhes in his chamber.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ii. f. 5v They founde faggottes of the bones of mennes armes and legges.
1652 Mercurius Britannicus No. 1. 11 The High and Mighty States of Holland..have let slip their Rampant bugbear, with a Welch faggot of arrows at his back.
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. D6v A Faggot of sweet Herbs.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. ii. 94 A little Faggot of Thyme, Savory, and Parsley.
1846 Catholic Weekly Instructor 4 July 323/1 A small faggot of rough shrubs, which served as a bed for his wearied limbs.
1904 Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynæcol. 6 281 An increase in the number of cells causes the projection of bunches or faggots of cells into the lumen of an alveolus.
1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. 111 Red-eye himself, carrying a great faggot of Easter lilies.
2012 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 25 Aug. 10 Three sticks of celery, 20 whole black peppercorns, large faggot of herbs—thyme, parsley and bay leaves.
b. Metallurgy. A bundle of iron or steel rods bound together, in later use often containing scrap metal to be reused. Now historical.Formerly: spec. such a bundle weighing 120 lb (approx. 54.4 kg).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > metal in the form of rods > bundle of
garbc1436
faggot1540
bundle1831
1540 Act 32 Henry VIII c. 14 §2 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 761 Item for every Last of faggottes of yron iiij s.
1640 in J. Entick Hist. London (1767) II. 181 For a faggot of steel 0 1d.
1657 Bk. of Values Merchandize Imported 57 Steel called Steel Wisp or Long, per Fagot or per hundred weight, containing an hundred and twelve pound..02l.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (at cited word) A Faggot of steel, the quantity of 120 lb. Weight.
1733 South Carolina Gaz. 6 Jan. 3/1 (advt.) Best sweeds iron in bars, english steel in small faggots, grind stones.
1775 Chester Chron. 11 Dec. Forty half faggots steel, ten bundles German steel.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 338 This is termed a faggot [of iron], being about 12 or 14 inches long, and six inches square.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 221 The bars were then..fastened into a faggot.
1920 D. A. Low Pocket-Bk. Mech. Engineers 294 Rivet iron bars are rolled from faggots of selected scrap-iron.
2011 T. Cooper How to read Industr. Brit. ii. 48 Using tilt hammers, bundles or ‘faggots’ of blister steel bars could be forge-welded.
c. Newfoundland. A stack of split and salted whole cod (arranged with their skins facing outwards) which have been exposed to the sun at various stages during the drying process. Cf. water horse n. 2.Also (Canadian regional) with reference to pollack being prepared and stacked in a similar manner; see quot. 1851.
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1667 J. Yonge Jrnl. (1963) (modernized text) 58 By night, or in wet weather, it's [sc. the drying fish] made up in faggots (as they call it), that is, 4 or five fishes with the skin upwards, and a broad fish on top.
1726 in C. G. Head 18th Cent. Newfoundland (1976) 74 Some time after this they lay them together in small heaps, about a dozen or 14 of them, what they call faggots, this they doe always in the evenings or when it Rains, & Spread them again in the mornings.
1851 M. H. Perley Rep. upon Fisheries Bay of Fundy in Rep. on Sea & River Fisheries New Brunswick (1852) 115 After pollack are split [on Deer Island, Bay of Fundy], they are washed, and lightly salted... At night, they are piled on the flakes, in heaps called ‘faggots’.
1861 L. De Boilieu Recoll. Labrador Life 37 The fish having been ‘turned’ each evening, about the third day they are put in faggots.
1936 N. Smith 52 Years at Labrador Fishery 17 After the first day's sun it would be made up in small faggots, not more than a half-quintal to each faggot.
1996 M. E. Fergusson Making Fish: Salt-cod Processing on East Coast Newfoundland (M.A. thesis, Memorial Univ. Newfoundland) 157 For an interspersed day or two the fish could be put in faggots to press out or ‘sweat’.
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1702 J. K. tr. F. Massialot New Instr. Confectioners 55 in Court & Country Cook Both yellow and white Faggots are made after the same manner: The former are those Parings which are made of the first Peel of the Orange.
?1750 E. Lambert Art of Confectionary 11 The Lemons ought to be pared twice over..; so will you have two Sorts of Faggots.
1861 W. Jeanes Mod. Confectioner v. 49 For Faggots, take some of the preserved Prawlings, about twenty or thirty pieces, and tie them round with narrow coloured ribbon, and then crystallize them.
5. A ball or (occasionally) patty of chopped or minced meat (esp. pig's liver or other offal), mixed with bread, suet, herbs, etc., and sometimes wrapped in caul fat. Cf. rissole n. Usually in plural.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > cuts or parts
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hog's foot1561
hog's cheek1573
bald-rib1598
spring1598
list1623
griskin1699
chine1712
pork griskin1725
rearing1736
pork chop?1752
hand1794
faggot1815
hog round1819
sweet-bone1826
butt1845
pig trotter1851
pork belly1863
Hodge1879
fore-end1906
fore-hock1923
1815 R. Rylance Epicure's Almanack 62 Peripatetic restaurateurs, of whom may be purchased hot soup, baked faggots, grey peas boiled, and peas-pudding.
1858 G. A. Sala Journey due North 308 The curious viands known in cheap pork-butchery..as Faggots.
1901 Times 3 Oct. 13/3 In a tub was 30lb. of chopped meat, also bad, which was intended for faggots.
1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel 199 Her paper bag..burst open revealing two beef faggots, the cheapest meat that Aberalaw provided.
2004 Western Mail (Nexis) 1 Mar. 15 The contorted faces had nothing to do with the indigestibility of the school dinner faggots.
II. Extended uses.† 10. Nautical. A place where casks are stored. Obsolete. rare.
6. figurative and in figurative contexts. A collection of people or things considered or treated as though bound together in a group or class. Cf. bunch n.1 4, bundle n. 3a. Now rare.Often used contemptuously.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun]
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congregationc1384
numberc1400
hirselc1425
company1439
assemblement1470
bundle1535
sort1563
raccolta1591
bevy1604
crew1607
congest1625
concoursea1628
nest1630
comportation1633
racemationa1641
assembly1642
collect1651
assemblage1690
faggot1742
museum1755
pash1790
shock1806
consortium1964
1548 A. Bacon tr. B. Ochino Serm. i. sig. A.vii I make one fagott and boundell of all my offences present, past, and to com, and geue them to Christe.
1650 W. Cradock in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. Ps. lxxxiii. 1 That he may..gather the wicked into one fagot..that they may be destroyed together.
1742 H. Walpole Let. 10 June in Corr. (1954) XVII. 450 My fagot of compliments.
1782 I. Reed Baker's Biogr. Dramatica II. 335/2 A faggot of utter improbabilities.
1846 ‘J. Hampden Jr.’ Aristocracy of Eng. i. 5 Kingcraft and priestcraft, bound up in the great faggot of aristocracy, became the dreadful abomination of desolation.
1854 R. W. Emerson Quotation & Originality in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 545 The psalms and liturgies of churches are..a fagot of selections gathered through ages.
1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. xvi. 65 She gives her children neither sense nor money Who slouch around the world with a gesture and a brogue And a faggot of useless memories.
7. British Army. A man who is temporarily hired as a dummy soldier to make up the required number at a muster of troops, or on the roll of a company or regiment. Cf. passe-volant n. 2. Now historical and rare.Probably with reference to the use of faggots of wood to fill ditches, etc. (see sense A. 1b and cf. quot. a1625).
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > one hired to make up muster-roll
faggot1689
a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggg2v/2 Tell the great General, my Companies are no fagots to fill breaches.]
1689 T. Plunket Char. Good Commander 12 His Muster-Rolls with Faggots are not pil'd.
1709 Brit. Apollo 9–11 Feb. You may be some Faggot to pass at a Muster.
a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) 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).
1849 Belfast News Let. 15 May In ancient times, it was not uncommon for a colonel to muster his liverymen, and fill up the blanks with faggots, and then draw pay for a full regiment.
1987 J. Childs Brit. Army William III i. 28 Company commanders from the old army were past masters at filling up their ranks with ‘faggots’ at the last possible moment before a muster.
8.
a. Chiefly Irish English, Scottish, and English regional. derogatory. A woman, esp. one considered to be troublesome, useless, or slatternly; frequently with modifying adjective, as old faggot, lazy faggot, etc. Often as a term of abuse or contempt. Occasionally also with reference to a man or an animal. Cf. bundle n. 2g.Earliest in appositive use.Earlier currency is perhaps indicated by quot. 1591, which may represent an example of or a pun on sense A. 2a.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
wifeeOE
womaneOE
womanOE
queanOE
brideOE
viragoc1000
to wifeOE
burdc1225
ladyc1225
carlinec1375
stotc1386
marec1387
pigsneyc1390
fellowa1393
piecec1400
femalea1425
goddessa1450
fairc1450
womankindc1450
fellowessa1500
femininea1513
tega1529
sister?1532
minikinc1540
wyec1540
placket1547
pig's eye1553
hen?1555
ware1558
pussy?a1560
jade1560
feme1566
gentlewoman1567
mort1567
pinnacea1568
jug1569
rowen1575
tarleather1575
mumps1576
skirt1578
piga1586
rib?1590
puppy1592
smock1592
maness1594
sloy1596
Madonna1602
moll1604
periwinkle1604
Partlet1607
rib of man1609
womanship?1609
modicum1611
Gypsy1612
petticoata1616
runniona1616
birda1627
lucky1629
she-man1640
her1646
lost rib1647
uptails1671
cow1696
tittup1696
cummer17..
wife1702
she-woman1703
person1704
molly1706
fusby1707
goody1708
riding hood1718
birdie1720
faggot1722
piece of goods1727
woman body1771
she-male1776
biddy1785
bitch1785
covess1789
gin1790
pintail1792
buer1807
femme1814
bibi1816
Judy1819
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
wifie1823
craft1829
shickster?1834
heifer1835
mot1837
tit1837
Sitt1838
strap1842
hay-bag1851
bint1855
popsy1855
tart1864
woman's woman1868
to deliver the goods1870
chapess1871
Dona1874
girl1878
ladykind1878
mivvy1881
dudess1883
dudette1883
dudine1883
tid1888
totty1890
tootsy1895
floozy1899
dame1902
jane1906
Tom1906
frail1908
bit of stuff1909
quim1909
babe1911
broad1914
muff1914
manhole1916
number1919
rossie1922
bit1923
man's woman1928
scupper1935
split1935
rye mort1936
totsy1938
leg1939
skinny1941
Richard1950
potato1957
scow1960
wimmin1975
womyn1975
womxn1991
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused > female
visenagec1460
bitch-clout?a1475
harlot?c1500
tarleather1575
whipperginnie1593
brach1612
city wire1616
she-dog1624
cunt1663
faggot1722
son of a bitch1936
1591 T. Lodge Catharos f. 4v I appoynt thee no more..constancie, but to brawle rather than burne: a filbert is better than a faggot, except it be an Athenian she handfull.]
1722 E. Ward Parish Gutt'lers 48 One Dol Gulpin, big with Child, A Faggot-Drab.
1796 T. W. Tone Diary 4 July in Life (1826) II. 144 Rot her, the dirty little faggot, she torments me.
1840 New-Yorker 21 Mar. 8/2 So —— you infernal faggot. I'll down with you if you don't let me pass.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. xxi. 233 She..struck at me, she did, the good-for-nothing faggot!
1890 A. Lowson John Guidfellow xi I kent fine 'at the auld faggot was carryin' on wi' that kind o' tamfoolery.
1925 D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 176 To me she [sc. a cow] is fractious, tiresome, and a faggot.
1946 J. Barke Wind that shakes Barley 114 What the devil are you doing up here, Saunders, you auld faggot?
1969 Sunday Mirror 9 Feb. 35 'Urry up wi' that glass o' beer, you lazy faggot!
1996 D. Healy Bend for Home xii. 66 Mrs Smith wants a cherry cake at five, my mother would say. Does she, the faggot.
b. English regional (southern and south-eastern), Scottish, and Irish English (northern). A naughty or mischievous child, esp. in young faggot, little faggot, etc. Frequently as a term of rebuke or reproach.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > playful mischievousness > mischievous person > [noun] > young
monkey1589
crack1600
irchin1625
limb1625
imp1642
booger1728
varmint1773
hurcheon?a1786
puck1823
hellion1845
faggot1859
Peck's bad boy1883
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > playful or mischievous roguery > young or playful rogue
urchinc1525
rascal1601
limb1625
imp1642
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impling1780
rip1781
scamp1808
hempy1818
flibbertigibbet1826
tinker1855
faggot1859
skeezicks1908
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 36 You little faggot, you!
1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 120 Come here, ye young faggot.
1889 ‘M. Gray’ Reproach of Annesley I. ii. ii. 64 A onbelieven young vaggot! I never zee such a mayde vur mischief.
1904 A. H. Cocks Bucks. Vocab. in Rec. Bucks. (1909) 9 140 What be doin' in that there dirt, you young fagot?
1948 M. Carbery & E. Grey Herts. Heritage 81 A pa'cel o' yoong faggits, that's what ye are.
1990 L. Todd Words Apart 70 That wee faggot biz up to mischief mornin', noon an night.
c. slang (originally and chiefly North American). Frequently derogatory and offensive. A homosexual man, sometimes spec. one considered to be effeminate; (occasionally) a lesbian. Also more generally: any man considered to be effeminate; (as a term of abuse or contempt) a weak or cowardly man or boy; a sissy. Cf. fag n.5The usual sense in North America.Sometimes (esp. in later use) used as a more neutral or positive term, esp. of self-reference, by homosexual men. Cf. adjectival use at sense B.Dated to 1905 in E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday (1937) (in ed. 1 (1933) dated to 1915), but without supporting evidence. In quots. 19131, 19132 with reference to young men performing a song and dance in drag.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male
badlingeOE
nan1670
molly1708
Miss Molly1754
Miss Nancy1824
molly mop1829
poof1833
Margery?c1855
Mary Ann1868
pretty-boy1881
cocksucker1885
poofter1889
queer1894
fruit1895
fairy1896
homosexualist1898
puff1902
pussy1904
nance1910
quean1910
girl1912
faggot1913
mouser1914
queen1919
fag1921
gay boy1921
maricon1921
pie-face1922
bitch1923
Jessie1923
tapette1923
pansy1926
nancy boy1927
nelly1931
femme1932
ponce1932
punk1933
queerie1933
gobbler1934
jocker1935
queenie1935
iron1936
freak1941
swish1941
flit1942
tonk1943
wonk1945
mother1947
fruitcake1952
Mary1953
twink1953
swishy1959
limp wrist1960
arse bandit1961
leather man1961
booty bandit1962
ginger beer1964
bummer1965
poofteroo1966
shirtlifter1966
battyman1967
dick-sucker1968
mo1968
a friend of Dorothy1972
shim1973
gaylord1976
twinkie1977
woofter1977
bender1986
knob jockey1989
batty boy1992
cake boy1992
1913 J. Reed Let. 7 Apr. (N.Y., Shubert Arch., CF108, Box 161) Mr. Max Hoffmann is very anxious to put on their vaudeville revue, to do this it will be necessary to cut out the ‘Garden of Girls’ scene,..also to eliminate ‘The Fagot Number’.
1913 J. Reed Let. 1 May (N.Y., Shubert Arch., CF108, Box 161) I am sending another one of the ‘Fagets’ home this week; they are getting almost beyond control.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 30 All the fagots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight.
1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises xii. 119 Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant.
1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money (1937) 273 He wiggled his hips like a woman when he talked. The first thing Marge thought was how on earth she could ever have liked that fagot.
1961 H. M. Hughes Fantastic Lodge x. 223 These chicks..were homos and faggots.
1962 H. Kane Killer's Kiss xxvii. 207 Duffy was no queen, no platinum-dyed freak, no screaming faggot.
1984 M. Amis Money 187 I just got razzed by some faggots... They called me a breeder.
2003 G. Keizer God of Beer iv. 26 Getting squeezed into a locker or being called a faggot or a pussy.
9. British Politics. A vote for a particular candidate or party fraudulently contrived by nominally transferring sufficient property to a person who would not otherwise be qualified to vote; = faggot vote n. Now historical.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > types of voting > types of vote
plumper1761
faggot1775
out-vote1790
faggot vote1803
floating vote1847
protest vote1912
tactical vote1974
1775 S. Douglas Hist. Cases Controverted Elections I. 210 The practice of making such conveyances about the time of an election, had long prevailed in the borough..and the votes so made, are known by the name of faggots.
1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1368 These faggots..returned the two members to the House of Commons.
1879 Daily News 16 Apr. 6/6 He..had not the slightest doubt he would win, unless he were to be swamped by faggots.
1906 Scotsman 19 Jan. 11/5 I have no doubt that the small majority by which he held that ‘puppet’ seat was largely owing to Radical faggots.
1997 H. C. G. Matthew Gladstone 1809–1898 (2001) 299 ‘Faggots’ only worked when the numbers were small and the pledges well-known and reliable.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 287 Fagot, a billet for stowing casks.
11. English regional (Cornwall). A clandestine or dishonest arrangement or agreement. Cf. faggot v. 6. rare.
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1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Faggot,..a secret and unworthy compromise.
B. adj.
slang (originally and chiefly North American). Frequently derogatory and offensive. Of, characteristic of, or relating to homosexual people, esp. men; designating a homosexual person, esp. a man. Also more generally of any man, esp. as a term of abuse or contempt: effeminate; (in extended use) lacking power or vigour; weak, cowardly; ineffectual. Cf. fag adj.Sometimes (esp. in later use) used as a more neutral or positive term, esp. of self-reference, by homosexual men; see, for example, quot. 1987.Some early examples may instead show use of the noun as a modifier.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective]
camp1909
queer1914
fairy1925
nancy1931
nance1933
gay1934
faggot1948
moffie1954
pink1972
1948 H. McCoy Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye i. vi. 60 ‘You faggot son-of-a-bitch,’ I said to Mason.
1969 J. A. Al-Amin Die Nigger Die! ii. 17 Even J. Edgar Hoover, with his faggot ass, admits that more Black folks kill Black folks than Blacks kill whites.
1987 J. Lee Pleasure Palace xviii. 197 Don't fight it, darling. Let go. Abandon yourself to our faggot life-style. Believe me, sweet thing, I can vouch for it.
1992 J. Mowry Way Past Cool 133 Pussy little faggot gun be shootin pussy little bullets.
2012 J. R. Angelella Zombie lxii. Smells like a faggot girl and his faggot girlfriend are doing faggot things together in very faggot ways.
Phrases
P1. fire and faggot (also faggots) and variants: the punishment of being burnt alive for heresy; cf. sense A. 2a and fire n. 11. Now historical.A Parliament held in Leicester in 1414 passed the Suppression of Heresy Act (2 Hen. V St. 1, c.7) which called for the hanging and burning at the stake of heretics, esp. Lollards. It was nicknamed the ‘Fire and Faggot Parliament’, but this does not seem to have been a name used at the time.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > burning > for heresy
faggot?a1425
fire and faggot (also faggots)1528
faggoting1545
Bonnering1613
auto-da-fé1697
1528 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII IV. ii. 2227 In casting prangs for to cast fyre and faggott.
?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew Prol. f. vi Callynge them heretickes at the first choppe, and threateninge them with fier and faggottes.
1566 tr. Against Detestable Masse sig. bv Oh how muche doe you deserue to haue the fire and fagot, blasphemers and heretickes.
1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels 232 Excommunication, exile, losse of goods, imprisonment, depriuation, haue bin reputed euermore fit punishments for heretikes: but fire and fagot is not Gods law, but canon shot.
1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant (1735) 101 You answer our Arguments with Fire and Faggot.
1759 J. Wesley Let. 17 Nov. (1931) IV. 325 You speak..as authoritatively..as if you had the full papal power in your hands, and fire and faggots at your back!
1847 Liverpool Mercury 13 July 6/5 For leaders we take bigots, and for representatives, monks, who would bring us back, if they could to the days of fire and faggot.
1888 J. Gairdner in Dict. National Biogr. XIII. 30/2 It is not easy to answer arguments in prison, with fire and faggots in the background.
1919 Sat. Rev. 22 Feb. 176/1 In the reign of Mary, because of his Protestant views, he was threatened with fire and faggot.
1950 Scotsman 9 June 6/7 It would be very easy for me to bring to his notice the barbarous outrages of certain fanatical Christians. No one needs to be reminded of the days of ‘the fire and the faggot.’
2010 H. Trevor-Roper & J. Robertson Hist. & Enlightenm. v. 71 The doctrine of the Trinity..had become the badge of orthodoxy in the fourth century, and had been defended by fire and faggot ever since.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > burn > heretics
to fry a faggot1554
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (intransitive)] > be burnt alive
to fry a faggot1621
1554 Dialogue or Familiar Talke betwene Two Neighbours sig. A.iiv These heritickes tell vs so, but I trust to see a good mani of them fry a faggot for this geare.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1573/1 A great meyny of them..had died for it in Smythfielde, in frying a Fagot.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 44 You deserued to fry a fagot.
1662 J. Barbon Λειτουργία Θειοτέρα Ἐργία 84 To charge the faithful Sons of this Church, with tendencie to Popery, when the Composers of the Liturgie fry'd a fagot in opposition thereto.
1812 J. West Loyalists I. vi. 169 He loved tyrants, and would have made us fry a faggot, had not the light of my preaching broke in upon his darkness.
1859 S. Hopkins Puritans I. xix. 532 ‘If you were well served,’ said another Commissioner, following the clew which the Dean had given, ‘you should fry a fagot.’
Compounds
C1. General attributive and objective.
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?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j With lollers lordaynes and fagot berers.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft v. i. 91 Three witches of great wealth..assalted a faggot-maker.
1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift sig. B3v Began to beelabour her..with a faggotstick.
1659 Unbiased Statesman 10 A fagot-band to hold the little and great, short and long, and sorts and sizes together.
1678 J. Brandon Τὸ Πῠρ Τὸ Αἰώνιον 32 The case would be no worse with them, in respect of the Fire of Hell, than the case of Malefactors, in respect of the Faggot-fire, here on Earth.
1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 727/2 Boats came..to fetch Faggot-wood.
a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) II. i. 7 The maid followed puss, with a faggot-stick in her hand.
1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. l Originally a faggot-maker, his mode of tying up bundles excited the attention of Democritus.
1841 Morning Post 16 Dec. If an election were to come on before the faggot freemen will have been enabled to register, the return of a Conservative Member would be secure.
1862 Birmingham Daily Post 16 Apr. 4/5 Radial bars, each curved outwards, showing the form and section of these faggot bars.
1912 Sat. Rev. 7 Sept. 297/2 There is a faggot-stack and a wood-pile, constantly replenished with odd timber from a felling or a wind-fall branch.
1974 P. O'Brian Chian Wine & Other Stories 62 Bottled gas or electricity had replaced the faggot-bearers.
2015 Carmarthen Jrnl. (Nexis) 17 June 57 These [challenges] included pizza decorating and a burger and faggot-making competition.
C2. † faggot brief n. Law colloquial Obsolete a dummy brief (brief n.1 7a) used by a barrister who is not engaged on a case, in order to appear employed; cf. sense A. 7.† faggot-spray n. Obsolete rare small twigs or pieces of brushwood discarded when making faggots.† faggot-waisted adj. Obsolete rare (of a garment) having a series of pleats at the waist resembling a bundle of sticks.
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1844 Bentley's Misc. 15 271 Reporting with intense zeal and industry, or affecting to report; or perusing the faggot brief.
1869 All Year Round 6 Feb. 225/2 The passing fat red bags full of anything but faggot briefs..diffused an air of respectability.
faggot drain n. a drain made by placing faggots (see sense A. 1b) at the bottom of a trench and then covering them with earth.
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1802 Commerc. & Agric. Mag. June 416 He contented himself with making a few bush or faggot drains.
1925 Weekly Irish Times 14 Feb. 18/1 Under suitable conditions faggot drains may be expected to last for 20 years or more.
1993 Financial Times 27 Nov. ii. p. xv/8 A system of trenches is the answer to a poorly-drained area, but the cheapest possibility is to trust Hellyer and choose a faggot drain instead.
faggot filling stitch n. Embroidery a decorative stitch used to fill a large area, consisting of a series or group of stitches each resembling a bundle of sticks, formed by sewing three small vertical stitches and joining them together in the middle with one or two horizontal ones.More usually called sheaf stitch, sheaf filling stitch.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other
chain-stitch1598
French knot1623
picot1623
petty-point1632
tent-stitch1639
brede-stitch1640
herringbone stitch1659
satin stitch1664
feather-stitch1835
Gobelin stitch1838
crowfoot1839
seedingc1840
German stitch1842
petit point1842
long stitch1849
looped stitch1851
hem-stitch1853
loop-stitch1853
faggot stitch1854
spider-wheel1868
dot stitch1869
picot stitch1869
slip-stitch1872
coral-stitch1873
stem stitch1873
rope stitch1875
Vienna cross stitch1876
witch stitch1876
pin stitch1878
seed stitch1879
cushion-stitch1880
Japanese stitch1880
darning-stitch1881
Kensington stitch1881
knot-stitch1881
bullion knot1882
cable pattern1882
Italian stitch1882
lattice-stitch1882
queen stitch1882
rice stitch1882
shadow-stitch1882
ship-ladder1882
spider-stitch1882
stem1882
Vandyke stitch1882
warp-stitch1882
wheel-stitch1882
basket-stitch1883
outline stitch1885
pointing1888
bullion stitchc1890
cable-stitchc1890
oriental stitchc1890
Turkish stitchc1890
Romanian stitch1894
shell-stitch1895
saddle stitch1899
magic stitch1900
plumage-stitch1900
saddle stitching1902
German knot stitch1903
trellis1912
padding stitch1913
straight stitch1918
Hungarian stitch1921
trellis stitch1921
lazy daisy1923
diamond stitchc1926
darning1930
faggot filling stitch1934
fly stitch1934
magic chain stitch1934
glove stitch1964
pad stitch1964
1934 M. Thomas Dict. Embroidery Stitches 182 Sheaf filling stitch, also known as faggot filling stitch.
1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 121/1 Fagot filling-stitch, group of parallel stitches tied together at center to form a bundle.
2006 M. Webb Embroidery Stitches iii. 169/1 Faggot filling stitch is a composite stitch used on plain- and even-weave fabrics.
faggot iron n. Metallurgy (now historical) iron in the form of bars or masses, produced by welding together a faggot of iron (see sense A. 3b).Cf. faggoted adj. 2.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other forms of iron
faggot ironc1503
sheaf-iron1572
merchant's irona1650
use1783
merchant iron1784
strap iron1833
angle1834
strip1887
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxx/2 Faget yerne.
1600 Court Rec. in H. Stevens Dawn Brit. Trade E. Indies (1886) I. 99 Ther shalbe provided furthe some convenient quantety of faggot iron being in small barres fitt to be converted in to nayles.
1844 New-Orleans Commerc. Bull. 24 Dec. (advt.) 1500 bales assorted hoop, hand and faggot Iron.
1911 Proc. 12th Ann. Convent. Amer. Railway Engin. Assoc. 398 Fagot iron..generally contains much scrap and may be wholly scrap.
2013 J. N. Miksic Singapore & Silk Road of Sea viii. 327 Iron bars, and also ‘faggot iron’, were still traded and used as currency in Borneo in the nineteenth century.
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1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 57 Put some rubbish of Lime-stones..Fagot-spray, or the like at the bottom of the Cases.
faggot steel n. Metallurgy (now historical) steel in the form of bars or masses, produced by welding together a faggot (see sense A. 3b); (also) steel contained in a faggot, esp. if suitable for welding together in this way.Cf. faggoted adj. 2.
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1765 Public Advertiser 6 Feb. (advt.) Iron Pots and Kettles, with sundry other Sorts of Ironmongers Ware, blistered and faggot Steel.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 234 The article known among dealers by the appellation of faggot steel.
1947 Times of India 15 Apr. 4/5 From Glasgow—60 cases cut teak;..502 bdls. faggot steel; 180 cases rum.
2007 C. Evans & G. Rydén Baltic Iron in Atlantic World Eighteenth Cent. ii. 139 Blister steel was routinely drawn out into slimmer bars, so-called ‘faggot steel’, suitable for artisans to work up.
faggot stitch n. (a) Needlework a decorative stitch used to join two pieces of material together, in which the thread is crossed or twisted when forming each stitch to create a lace-like open network between the two pieces; (b) Knitting a stitch used to create loose, lacy work.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other
chain-stitch1598
French knot1623
picot1623
petty-point1632
tent-stitch1639
brede-stitch1640
herringbone stitch1659
satin stitch1664
feather-stitch1835
Gobelin stitch1838
crowfoot1839
seedingc1840
German stitch1842
petit point1842
long stitch1849
looped stitch1851
hem-stitch1853
loop-stitch1853
faggot stitch1854
spider-wheel1868
dot stitch1869
picot stitch1869
slip-stitch1872
coral-stitch1873
stem stitch1873
rope stitch1875
Vienna cross stitch1876
witch stitch1876
pin stitch1878
seed stitch1879
cushion-stitch1880
Japanese stitch1880
darning-stitch1881
Kensington stitch1881
knot-stitch1881
bullion knot1882
cable pattern1882
Italian stitch1882
lattice-stitch1882
queen stitch1882
rice stitch1882
shadow-stitch1882
ship-ladder1882
spider-stitch1882
stem1882
Vandyke stitch1882
warp-stitch1882
wheel-stitch1882
basket-stitch1883
outline stitch1885
pointing1888
bullion stitchc1890
cable-stitchc1890
oriental stitchc1890
Turkish stitchc1890
Romanian stitch1894
shell-stitch1895
saddle stitch1899
magic stitch1900
plumage-stitch1900
saddle stitching1902
German knot stitch1903
trellis1912
padding stitch1913
straight stitch1918
Hungarian stitch1921
trellis stitch1921
lazy daisy1923
diamond stitchc1926
darning1930
faggot filling stitch1934
fly stitch1934
magic chain stitch1934
glove stitch1964
pad stitch1964
1854 Godey's Lady's Bk. Sept. 288/2 Pretty collars and cuffs are made by rows of fine linen bobbin [lace] set together with an open fagot stitch.
1903 Daily Chron. 13 June 8/4 A lace and canvas epaulette pelerine, the seams of which are separated by faggot-stitch.
1943 M. Thomas Bk. Knitting Patterns (1972) 135 Faggot Stitch in knitting has..this difference—the knitted fabric is not cut and decoratively rejoined, but stitch and fabric are made at the same time, so the position of the Faggot Stitch lines must be planned out beforehand.
2007 J. Pawlowski Field Guide Knitting 183 A close cousin to herringbone faggot stitch patterns, purse stitch chooses to purl two stitches together, rather than knit.
faggot stitching n. Needlework the action or result of ornamenting fabric or a garment using faggot stitch (faggot stitch n. (a)).
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1891 Boston Post 11 Apr. 8/4 Feather stitching, faggot stitching, tiny tucks and all the many dainty tricks of the needle, of which only a French nun is mistress.
1928 Sunday Express 3 June 8 The frills, which were not more than half an inch wide, were set in with faggot stitching.
2013 @zawann 27 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) A fine brocaded metallic silver-grey and black flapper dress with faggot stitching to the front pane.
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1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. Dd.iij Their Dublettes sometyme faggotte wasted aboue the Nauill, sometymes Cowebeallied belowe the flanckes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
faggotv.
/ˈfaɡət/, U.S. /ˈfæɡət/ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > recant or retract
revoke1395
renayc1450
reclaima1475
faggot1538
recant1542
recry1568
to eat one's words1571
recall1585
unsay1585
retract1644
palinode1847
1538 N. Shaxton Let. 21 Mar. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxi. 149 Making onely his Reformation in Words: & neither Faggoting; nor to his utter Shame & Confusion, any open Revocation.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > prepare (a person for)
faggot1543
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > burn
faggot1543
burn1547
1543 G. Joye George Ioye confuteth Winchesters Articles 24 Fagetting, burninge and slaying the true professours..of gods holy word.
1544 G. Joye Present Consol. Sufferers Persecucion sig. C.vii They threaten they persecute, they faget they preson they burne &tc.
1631 T. Drue Life Dutches of Suffolke i. sig. B4 If she recant not I will fagot her.
1683 H. Hare Situation of Paradise 204 Their manner was to bring back those who (they said) were going to him, with Sword or Fire: they would pistol or faggot you, if you went not along with them.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 156/1 The poet is staked and faggoted by his surrounding brethren.
1906 S. R. Crockett White Plume xxx. 222 The sight of their parents and children being fagoted for the glory of God.
3.
a. transitive. To make (sticks, twigs, etc.) into a faggot or faggots. Also (and in earliest use) with up. Now chiefly historical.In quot. 1582 as part of an extended metaphor: cf. sense 4b.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > make into a bundle
bindc1000
trussc1300
kid1504
faggot1582
bundlec1649
1582 J. Stubbs tr. T. de Bèze Christian Medit. Eight Psalmes of Dauid sig. B.viv Yet do I some wrong to compare them [sc. sinners] to trees, rather are they thornes, bryers and brambles, which thou doest fagot vp together in their time, to be thrust in the fire.
1613 A. Standish New Direct. 15 Good store of worke for poore laboring men, by lopping and faggoting the wood.
1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xviii. 80 The leaves..must be stripp'd from the cut boughs before they are faggotted.
1727 R. Bradley Compl. Body Husbandry ix. 166 This kind of furze..is cut down near the ground and faggotted up.
1786 W. Cowper Let. 8 May (1981) II. 539 The Dunce..cut down and faggoted up the whole grove.
1831 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 3 Sept. The Taker will be supplied with Fuel from the Woods and Plantations adjoining, on paying or cutting and faggotting the same.
1885 T. Mozley Reminisc. Towns (ed. 2) II. cv. 285 These [sticks] he brought home, distributed in sizes, and faggoted.
1906 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 792/1 A woodman, cutting and faggoting the gorse for the purpose of making shelters for the flocks in winter.
2007 West Briton (Nexis) 24 May 56 At one time in Devon and Cornwall every farm would have had its fuzz or vuzz brake. It would be cut and faggoted as fuel.
b. intransitive. To make or bind sticks, twigs, etc., into faggots. Now rare.In quot. 1967 perhaps: to collect sticks, twigs, etc., to make faggots.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > form bundles
faggot1755
1755 London Evening-post 29–31 May Riding through the Wood, some Men who were faggoting,..went directly in Search of him.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. x. 108 Heaps of white chips..showed that woodmen had been faggoting.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 76 After they have finished faggoting, the women rake up the fragments for their cottage fires.
1933 H. Waddell Peter Abelard ii. 137 They had been faggoting here, he saw, but had not finished stacking them.
1967 J. I. M. Stewart Vanderlyn's Kingdom iv. i. 220 The old men faggoting with donkeys.
4. In extended use.† b. transitive. To tie (people) together as if in a faggot in order to cast them on a fire. Chiefly with up, together. Obsolete.Sometimes with reference to hellfire.† c. transitive. To tie (people) together in order to restrain them. Also (chiefly cant): to tie up (a person); to bind hand and foot. Also with up, together. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To bind, bundle, or deal with (a number of things) together; to bind or bundle (a thing or things) with (another or others). Frequently with up, together.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > group > like spec.
faggot1605
squadron1862
platoon1875
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ii3 Titles packed, and fagotted vp together. View more context for this quotation
1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 13 He..faggotted his Notions as they fell, And if they rhim'd and rattled all was well.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 173 The..seeds are not..faggotted together with so strong an union.
1784 J. Hare Victory of Faith 38 Things essentially and substantially different, bundled and fagoted together for the occasion.
1869 Times 26 Aug. 4/3 The history and fortunes of these three gentlemen and their wives are fagoted with those of the Trevelyans and Gibsons.
1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel I. lv. 353 He [sc. Newman] fagoted Hampden's pamphlet on ‘Religious Dissent’ with several other scandals, as he deemed them, in the ‘Foundations of the Faith Assailed’.
1915 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Mar. 69/3 From fagoting up the thoughts of others with bands of his own devising the idea of self-portraiture gradually emerges.
1997 Times 5 Apr. (Mag.) 45/4 The same veg, including beans faggoted with a strip of bacon, were served with the main courses.
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1605 T. Tymme Silver Watch-bell 97 They [sc. the wicked] shal be gathereth, together as the prisoners in the pit & fagoted vp in a band like a bundel of stickes, for the fire.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 33 Hermes..with his Wife, Children, and whole family..were all faggotted together to make one great bone-fire.
1669 J. Flavell Husbandry Spiritualized ii. ii. 183 Growing..amongst them that shall shortly be cut down and faggoted up for hell.
1721 R. Keith tr. Thomas à Kempis Soliloquy of Soul ii, in tr. Thomas à Kempis Select Pieces II. 132 Then shall they be faggotted together in Bundles for the Fire, who were here Companions in Drunkenness.
1895 Freethinker 7 Apr. 216/1 Mr. Hocking believes that God will gather his children home, and that the great majority will not be faggoted for the flames.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > join in marriage
wedOE
join1297
spousec1325
bind1330
couplea1340
to put togethera1387
conjoin1447
accouple1548
matea1593
solemnize1592
espouse1599
faggot1607
noose1664
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1700
rivet1700
to tie the knot1718
buckle1724
unite1728
tack1732
wedlock1737
marry1749
splice1751
to turn off1759
to tie up1894
1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage sig. F3 Did they not bind your worships knighthoode by the thumbs? then fagotted you and the fool, your man, back to back.
1643 R. Fiennes Reply to Pamphlet 14 You could have faggotted all the foot one upon another in the Castle.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew When we enter'd the Ken, we loapt up the Dancers, and Fagotted all there, when we got into the House, we whipt up Stairs and Bound all the People there.
1716 R. Manning Shortest Way to end Disputes iv. 178 I would order all those profligate Rogues..to be fagotted up together, and carried to Ostia,..where there is a Puddle.
1725 New Canting Dict. Faggot, to bind Hand and Foot; as Faggot the Culls; i. e. Bind the Men.
5. transitive. Metallurgy. To gather (bars or pieces of metal) into a bundle before heating and welding together into a mass. Cf. faggot n. 3b. Now historical and rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > make into faggots
faggot1727
bundle1831
1727 R. Bradley Houghton's Coll. for Improvem. Husb. & Trade II. 224 How the sows and piggs of iron are prepared for bars, and drawen into such, cut and fagoted.
1834 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 12 Feb. The effect of faggotting the Axles and case hardening both the boxes and Axels, is..greatly to increase their strength.
1861 W. Fairbairn Iron vi. 102 These [puddle bars] are cut up and piled regularly together or faggotted.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 175/1 The axles should be made of the best scrap iron fagoted.
1919 Financial Times 15 Mar. 5/5 The engineer finds it pays him, with this furnace, to faggot up scrap and make flat iron.
1987 G. Tweedale Sheffield Steel & Amer. i. ii. 32 To increase the homogeneity of this blister steel the bars were bundled (or ‘faggoted’) and heated and forged together.
6. intransitive. English regional (Cornwall). Wrestling. To accept a bribe to allow oneself to be thrown. Now rare.Cf. slightly earlier quot. 1858 at faggoting n. 1.
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1862 W. B. Forfar Pengersick Castle i. 2 Ef you do go in the ring, doan'tee go for to faggottee weth nobody.
1872 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 27 July 1/5 A special prize of £1 will be offered to any non-winner of a prize that throws the greatest number of men, without faggoting, to the satisfaction of the Committee.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall (at cited word) A man who in the wrestling ring, sells his back, is said to faggot.
7. transitive. Needlework. To decorate (a piece of work) with faggot stitch (faggot stitch n. (a) at faggot n. and adj. Compounds 2). Also: to join (two pieces of material) with faggot stitch.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > embroider or ornament with sewing > in other ways
couchc1405
clock1521
nerve1532
re-embroider1659
herringbone1787
hem-stitcha1839
wavela1844
to lay on1880
darn1882
faggot1883
feather-stitch1884
overcast1891
clox1922
needlepoint1975
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > sew together > other
mitre1644
run1815
loop-stitch1853
faggot1883
saddle-stitch1929
1883 Continent 3 Oct. 437/1 A fine nightcap, the frills neatly fagoted, for me.
1900 M. E. Wilkins Love of Parson Lord 117 She has hem-stitched and fagoted everything.
1922 Vogue 15 Apr. 3/2 (advt.) Tiny strips of the material faggoted into motifs which also edges collar and cuffs.
1981 Times 21 July 11/2 The miraculous little dresses embroidered and smocked and faggotted.
2008 A. Fischer Construction 88 Start fagotting the two edges together by taking slanted stitches from one side to the other.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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