Faggot is a word used, usually pejoratively, to refer to a gay man.

Faggot, faggots, or faggoting may refer to:

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

Biology

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

Branch

  • 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

Literature and music

People with the surname

  • Jacob Faggot (1699–1777), Swedish scientist
  • Nicholas Faggot, a character in Redgauntlet, Walter Scott's 1824 novel

Other uses

See also