Usually means: Bundle of sticks or twigs.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word faggot:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. faggot: Merriam-Webster
  2. faggot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. faggot, faggot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. faggot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. faggot: Vocabulary.com
  6. faggot: Wordnik
  7. faggot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. faggot: Wiktionary
  9. faggot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. faggot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. faggot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. faggot: Dictionary.com
  13. faggot (1), faggot (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. faggot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Faggot (disambiguation), Faggot (epithet), Faggot (film), Faggot (food), Faggot (slang), Faggot (unit), Faggot (wood), Faggot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. faggot: Rhymezone
  17. faggot: FreeDictionary.org
  18. faggot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. faggot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Faggot: World Wide Words
  21. faggot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Faggot (disambiguation), faggot: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faggot: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. faggot, faggot, faggot, faggot, faggot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. faggot: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Faggot: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. faggot (or fag): Urban Dictionary

(Note: See faggoting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
noun:  (obsolete) Burdensome baggage.
noun:  A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
noun:  (rare, dated in US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)
noun:  (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
noun:  (chiefly US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid, pathetic, emotional, non-heteronormative in some way.
noun:  (US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, dated, colloquial, derogatory, now offensive) A shrewish woman.
noun:  (obsolete, possibly now offensive) A soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not really existing.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, historical, possibly now offensive) A faggot voter.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, dated, slang, now offensive) A lazy, weak, work-shy person.
verb:  Alternative form of fagot [(transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.]

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