bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks"

a bundle of sticks, but that word too has been abused and is now unusable

a burning stick

a bundle (of sticks or wrought iron); also: slang, generally offensive word for same-sex attracted man. Faggots (i.e. sticks) were used during witch-burning times in Europe, when many independent women, herbalists, healers and heretics and sexual non-conformists were condemned as witches .

A faggot or fagot is a bundle of sticks or branches, usually meant for use as firewood. It derives (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=fagot&searchmode=none) through the Old French fagot and the Italian diminutive fagotto from the Latin facus ("bundle"), coming into Middle English no later than 1279. It has also been used on occasion to refer more specifically (attested from 1555 in English) to wood for funeral pyres or a burning at the stake, and recanting heretics had to wear an embroidered figure of a faggot on their sleeve.

A mixture of pork offal, onion and breadcrumbs which is baked and eaten with gravy. The term is also used to describe a small bunch of herbs tied like a miniature faggot of wood, such as a bouquet garni.

A stalk of celery tied with parsley, bay leaf and thyme. Used in cooking soups, then discarded.

A faggot is a kind of meatball, a traditional dish in the UK, especially the southwest of England, Wales, and the Black Country. It is made from unwanted meat off-cuts and offal, especially pork. A faggot is traditionally made from pig heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes breadcrumbs.

A derogatory term for gay men. Some gay men have chosen to reclaim this term and use it to have positive meaning, especially when saying it in the company of other gay men and/or GLBT people.

Faggot, faggit or fag, in modern American, Canadian and Australian English usage, is a generally pejorative term for a gay or effeminate man. Its use has spread to varying extents elsewhere in the English-speaking world.

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