Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: faggot
IPA transcription: [f'æɡət]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fagot, faggot
    Meaning: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
  • Synonyms: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf
    Meaning: offensive term for an openly homosexual man
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: faggot, fagot, faggot_up
    Meaning: bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks"
  • Synonyms: faggot, fagot
    Meaning: fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
  • Synonyms: faggot, fagot
    Meaning: ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife"
Usage examples
  • While this good maid was in the oven, by side of back-kitchen fireplace, with a faggot of wood drawn over her, and lying so that her own heart beat worse than if she were baking; the men (as I said before) came downstairs, and stamped around the baby.
  • Arrived in her father's presence, she had great difficulty in persuading him that she was not a ghost, until the coffin with the faggot inside it was taken up, and Grognon's malice discovered But even then, the king was so weak a man, that the queen soon made him believe he had been cheated, that the princess was really dead, and that this was a false Graciosa.