fagot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun offensive term for an openly homosexual man
    poove; fairy; nance; queen; pansy; poof; queer; pouf; faggot; fag.
  2. noun a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
    faggot.
  3. verb ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
    faggot.
    • He fagotted the blouse for his wife
  4. verb fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
    faggot.
  5. verb bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
    faggot; faggot up.
    • faggot up the sticks

WordNet

Fag"ot noun
Etymology
F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. bundle, fagot. Cf. Fagotto.
Definitions
  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.) 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.
Fag"ot transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fagoted; present participle & verbal noun Fagoting
Definitions
  1. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.

Webster 1913