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» This article refers to a kind of firewood; for other uses, see Faggot.
A
faggot or fagot is a bundle of sticks or branches, usually meant for use as firewood.
It derives
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) through the
Old French fagot and the Italian diminutive
fagotto from the
Latin Fasces ("bundle", also the origin of the word
Fascism), coming into
Middle English no later than 1279.
It has also been used on occasion to refer more specifically (attested from 1555 in English) to wood for funeral
pyres or a
burning at the stake, and recanting heretics had to wear an embroidered figure of a faggot on their sleeve.
When a faggot is wrapped in only one band or withe, instead of the traditional two, it's also referred to as a
bavin.
Use in popular culture
Sylvia Plath starts her poem "Wuthering Heights" with the line "The horizons ring me like faggots", likening herself to someone being burnt at a stake, adding that if they're "[t]ouched by a match, they might warm me."
In
The Simpsons episode "
The Haw-Hawed Couple", while discussing a plan to unite against
Nelson Muntz,
Martin Prince states: "individually we're weak, like a single twig. But as a bundle we form a mighty faggot". A dictionary definition of the word then appears on screen to clear up the audience intended confusion with the epithet
faggot.
The word for
bassoon is das Fagott in German, fagot in Spanish, and il fagotto in Italian.
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