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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

• Faggots (novel), 1978 novel by Larry Kramer
• The Faggot, 1876 book by Charles Tylor
• "Faggot", a track from Deadbeat Hero by Doug Stanhope
• "Faggot", a song by Mindless Self Indulgence
• "Faggot", a song by Arca from Mutant

People with the surname

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

Other uses

• Faggot (food), British meatball commonly made of pork offal
• Faggot, Northumberland, uninhabited island off England
• Ashen faggot, English West country Christmas tradition
• Faggot voter, exploiting an electoral abuse
• Faggot (film), a 2016 Canadian short drama film

See also

• Fag (disambiguation)
• Fagg (disambiguation)
• Faget (disambiguation)
• Fagot (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Faggot
• All pages with titles containing Faggot

• Disambiguation pages