faggotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 fagot, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), of uncertain origin. Unlikely from Old Occitan fagot or Italian fagotto, as these appear later than the Old French term. Compare also Italian fangotto and Spanish fajo (“bundle, wad”). Perhaps from a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle of wood”).

The senses relating to persons, though possibly originating as an extension of the sense "bundle of sticks" (compare baggage), may have been reinforced by fag, from fagging and/or by faygele, from Yiddish פֿייגעלע (feygele, “homosexual”, literally “little bird”), related to English fowl.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfæɡ.ət/
  • • (Upper Midwestern 米国発音, Northwestern 米国発音, Canada, æ-raising) IPA: /ˈfeɪ̯ɡ.ət/
• 韻: -æɡət
• ハイフネーション: fag‧got

名詞

faggot (plural faggots)

1. (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.)
   • 1853, Sir Francis Bond Head, A faggot of French sticks: or, Paris in 1851, page 2:

     In the depth of, winter, however, a faggot of real French Sticks — although of little intrinsic value — may possibly enliven for a few moments an English Fireside.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:

     Besides the logs and roots that simmered with turves and dung on the cottage fire, rapid heat for bread-making came from faggots - bundles of dry twigs about 4 ft long - which were fed into the oven, burned and then removed as ash before the dough went in.

2. (obsolete) Burdensome baggage.
3. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
4. (rare, dated in US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
   • 1961, Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions:

     He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them. The waning faggot cast red light over his fangs.

   • 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune, New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 109:

     To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous gray, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars.

5. (chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)

   Synonym: (slang, obsolete) duck

   • 2008, Julie Hodgson, In My Father's Pockets, page 16:

     Today would be faggots in gravy and chocolate pudding with a white sauce. I didn't like faggots but picked at them and rolled the peas around my plate.

6. (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A gay man, especially an effeminate one; a queer man.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:male homosexual

   Coordinate terms: dyke, scissor sister

   • 1914, Louis E. Jackson and C.R. Hellyer, Vocabulary of Criminal Slang (Portland, OR: Modern Printing Co., 1914) page 30:

     Drag, Example: “All the fagots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight.

   • 1985, Sting & Mark Knopfler, “Money for Nothing”, in Brothers in Arms, performed by Dire Straits:

     See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup? / Yeah buddy, that's his own hair / That little faggot got his own jet airplane / That little faggot, he's a millionaire

   • 2000 June 28, Tom Yeung, “Using his death?”, in Xtra Magazine‎, archived from the original on 20 April 2024:

     Shortly after Surrey high school student Hamed Nastoh (called a “faggot” by classmates) killed himself by jumping off a bridge, James Chamberlain wrote a letter to the editor of a small newspaper called the Peace Arch News.

   • 2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 228:

     We're a hot looking crew that's your average faggot's wet dream, so we pull some pretty max tricks.

   • 2009, David L. Gold, Studies in Etymology and Etiology, page 781:

     Fleissner's explanation presumably implies that Dickens meant Fag as an allusion to the derogatory English words fag 'homosexual', and faggot 'homosexual'

   • 2012, Margaret Cho, quoted (mimicking Karl Lagerfeld) in On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility

     Of course I'm a faggot, darling. I'm a flaming faggot, darling. I am fanning the flames of my faggotry.

7. (chiefly US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A man considered effeminate.
8. (US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
9. (UK, Ireland, dated, colloquial, derogatory, now offensive) An old and/or shrewish woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shrew

   • 1591, T[homas] L[odge] of Lincolns, Catharos Diogenes in his Singularitie: Wherein is comprehended his merrie baighting fit for all mens benefits: Christened by him, A Nettle for Nice Noſes, London: Iohn Busbie, page 12; republished [Glasgow]: [Hunterian Club], [1875]:

     I appoynt thée no more continencie, than to eate while thy bellie is full, nor conſtancie, but to brawle rather than burne: a filbert is better than a faggot, except it be an Athenian ſhe handfull: you know that Coſmoſophos, euer ſince your laſt mariage, how doth the father of your ſonne in law?

   • 1796, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Autobiography:

     she wants me to go to bed to her, and I won't, ... for she is as crooked as a ram's horn ... and as ugly as sin besides ; rot her, the dirty little faggot, she torments me.

   • 1834, William Carleton, The Midnight Mass:

     The woman, in accordance with the custom of the country, raised the Irish cry, in a loud melancholy wail ...
     Darby, who prided himself on maintaining silence, could not preserve the consistency of his character upon this occasion ... "Your sowl to the divil, you faggot!" he exclaimed, "what do you mane? The divil whip the tongue out o' you! ..."

   • 1922, James Joyce, chapter 18, in Ulysses:

     he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting for that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d for her methylated spirit […]

   • 1925, D. H. Lawrence, Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays: .. Love Was Once a Little Boy:

     To me she is fractious, tiresome, and a faggot. Yet the subtle desirableness is in her, for me. As it is in the brown hen, or even a sow.

   • 1973, Hugh Leonard, Da:

     MOTHER: To see who?
     DA: You faggot, you; don't let on you don't know.

10. (obsolete, possibly now offensive) A soldier numbered on the muster roll, but not really existing.
11. (UK, Ireland, historical, possibly now offensive) A faggot voter.
    • 1973, Ellen Reid Gold, Gladstone in Midlothian: A Rhetorical Analysis of His 1879 Campaign, page 114:

      The Glasgow Herald thought that his attack on the faggots was too serious […]

12. (UK, Ireland, dated, slang, now offensive) A lazy, weak, work-shy person.

使用する際の注意点

• The usage to refer to the British meatball delicacy (sense 5) is not widely known outside the United Kingdom and Ireland. Due to the prevalence of the usage as a homophobic slur (sense 6) in other regions, it is likely to be misconstrued as hate speech by those unaware of it. In contexts where the word can be interpreted as an allusion to homosexuals, this sense can be considered offensive even in the United Kingdom and Ireland, despite the homophobic slur not being in widespread use there.

派生語

動詞

faggot (third-person singular simple present faggots, present participle faggoting, simple past and past participle faggoted)

1. Alternative form of fagot.

参照

Further reading

• “faggot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “faggot”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• faggot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia