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faggot

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1. faggot - Noun

2. faggot - Verb

Meaning

offensive term for a homosexual man

a bundle of sticks and branches bound together

bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot

fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them

ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch

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[N]o one appeared to wonder whether this S-M proliferation was a lesbian copy of a faggot imitation of patriarchal backlash against feminism. Robin Morgan

The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot. Edie Sedgwick

At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit, Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten of flame, Where blood-begotten spirits come And all complexities of fury leave, Dying into a dance, An agony of trance, An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve. William Butler Yeats

Man is a faggot of thorns. Maltese Proverb

Fire and faggot are but sad reformers. German Proverb

The fast faggot is not easily broken. German Proverb

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