Faggot

Faggot, faggots, or faggoting may refer to:

• faggot or fagot, branch or twig, or bundle of these
  • Fascine, bundle of brushwood used in civil and military engineering
  • Fasces, ancient symbol of an axe bound in a bundle of rods
  • Faggot (unit), archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks
  • Death by burning, metonymically referred to by the faggots which fuel the fire
  • Ashen faggot (or ashton fagot), Christmas wassail tradition in the West Country of England
• a discarded cigarette end
• Faggot Hill, a summit in Massachusetts, United States

Arts and crafts

• Faggoting (metalworking), forge welding a bundle of bars of iron and steel
• Faggoting (knitting), variation of lace knitting in which every stitch is a yarn over or a decrease
• Faggoting stitch, featherstitch, or Cretan stitch, embroidery stitch used to make decorative seams or to attach insertions
• Bassoon, variously called fagotto, faggot, fagott, fagot

Culture

• Faggot (slang), pejorative, now usually for a gay man, also having older and derived pejorative senses
  • Faggots (novel), 1978 novel by Larry Kramer
  • Faggot, a track from the stand-up comedy album Deadbeat Hero by Doug Stanhope
  • "Faggot", a song by Mindless Self Indulgence:

• • a track from Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
  • a track from Our Pain, Your Gain

• The Faggot, 1876 book by Charles Tylor
• Nicholas Faggot, character in the 1824 novel Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
• Faggot voter, hireling eligible to vote as nominal titleholder of part of a subdivided property

Food

• Faggot (food), British meatball commonly made of pork offal
• A herb bundle, or bouquet garni of bay leaf, thyme and parsley tied together

Science

• Faggot cell, blast cell type found in acute promyelocytic leukemia
• Eumeta crameri or faggot worm, from the bundles of twigs it binds to itself

Surname

• Jacob Faggot (1699–1777), Swedish scientist

See also

• List of all articles starting with Faggot
• Fag (disambiguation)
• Fagot (disambiguation)