Faggot (disambiguation)

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