faggot

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
faggot /ˈfagət/

▶noun

• 1 Brit. a ball of seasoned chopped liver, baked or fried.

• 2 (US fagot) a bundle of sticks bound together as fuel.

  ■ a bundle of iron rods bound together for reheating, welding, and hammering into bars.

• 3 N. Amer. informal, derogatory a male homosexual.

• 4 Brit. informal, dated an unpleasant or contemptible woman.

▶verb (faggots, faggoting, faggoted; US fagots, fagoting, fagoted) (in embroidery) join by faggoting.

– derivatives
faggoty adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr. fagot, from Ital. fagotto, based on Gk phakelos ‘bundle’.