Faggot, faggots, or faggoting may refer to:

Arts and crafts

* Faggoting (metalworking), forge welding a bundle of bars of iron and steel *

Faggoting (knitting) Basic knitted fabrics include stocking stitch, reverse stocking stitch, garter stitch, seed stitch, faggoting, and tricot. In some cases, these fabrics appear differently on the right side (knitting), right side (as seen when making the stitch) t ...

, 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 *

Bassoon The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...

, called fagotto, faggot, fagott, fagot in other languages

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 A branch, sometimes called a ramus in botany, is a woody structural member connected to the central trunk (botany), trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub). Large branches are known as boughs and small branches are known as twigs. The term '' ...

or twig, or bundle of these **

Fascine A fascine is a rough bundle of brushwood or other material used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across uneven or wet terrain. Typical uses are protecting the banks of streams from erosion, covering marshy ground and so ...

, bundle of brushwood used in civil and military engineering **

Fasces Fasces ( ; ; a ''plurale tantum'', from the Latin word ''fascis'', meaning "bundle"; it, fascio littorio) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe (occasionally two axes) with its blade emerging. The fasces is an Italian symbo ...

, ancient symbol of an axe bound in a bundle of rods **

Faggot (unit) A faggot, in the meaning of "bundle", is an archaic English unit applied to bundles of certain items. Alternate spellings in Early Modern English include ''fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott,'' and ''faggat''. A similar ...

, archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks

Food

Faggot (food) Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs. It is a traditional dish in the ...

, British meatball commonly made of pork offal

Slang

Faggot (slang) ''Faggot'', often shortened to ''fag'', is a usually pejorative term used to refer to gay men. In American youth culture around the turn of the 21st century, its meaning extended as a broader reaching insult more related to masculinity and gro ...

, a pejorative for a gay man :* ''Faggots'' (novel), 1978 novel by Larry Kramer :*''Faggot'', a track from '' Deadbeat Hero'' by Doug Stanhope :*"Faggot", a song by

Mindless Self Indulgence Mindless Self Indulgence (often referred to as MSI) is an American electropunk band formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style which includes punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno, industrial, hip hop, and breakb ...

:*"Faggot", a song by Arca from ''

Mutant In biology, and especially in genetics, a mutant is an organism or a new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is generally an alteration of the DNA sequence of the genome or chromosome of an organism. It ...

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Faget (song) "Faget" is a song by the American nu metal band Korn. It is the sixth track from the band's self-titled debut studio album. The song is about how Korn's lead vocalist, Jonathan Davis, was bullied in high school for being into arts, wearing eyel ...

, by American band Korn

Surname

Jacob Faggot Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Ja ...

(1699–1777), Swedish scientist * Nicholas Faggot, character in the 1824 novel ''

Redgauntlet ''Redgauntlet'' (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as "in a sense, the ...

'' by Sir Walter Scott

Other

* Faggot, Northumberland, uninhabited island off England *

Ashen faggot The ashen faggot (also known as ashton fagot) is an old England, English Christmas tradition from Devon and Somerset, similar to that of the Yule log and related to the wassail tradition. A faggot (unit), faggot is a large log or a bundle of ash s ...

, English West country Christmas tradition *

Faggot voter A faggot voter or faggot was a person who qualified to vote in an election with a restricted suffrage only by the exploitation of loopholes in the regulations. Typically, faggot voters satisfied a property qualification by holding the title to a su ...

, exploiting an electoral abuse *''The Faggot'', 1876 book by

Charles Tylor Charles Tylor (2 November 1816 – 14 March 1902) was an English Quaker author. He was the founding editor of Quaker weekly publication, '' The Friend''.Society of Friends (1902). ''Extracts from the minutes and proceedings of the yearly meeting ...