faggot🔊

(chiefly UK, Ireland) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying.

(obsolete) Burdensome baggage.

A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.

(rare, dated in US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.

(chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. +

(highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.

(chiefly US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid, pathetic, emotional, non-heteronormative in some way.

(US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.

(UK, Ireland, dated, colloquial, derogatory, now offensive) A shrewish woman.

(obsolete, possibly now offensive) A soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not really existing.

(UK, Ireland, historical, possibly now offensive) A faggot voter.

(UK, Ireland, dated, slang, now offensive) A lazy, weak, work-shy person.