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fagot

/ˈfæɡ.ət/ UK

Sounds like faggot · Rhymes with -æɡət

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Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

noun fagots

alternative Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”). What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
alternative Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
obsolete A fagotto, or bassoon.
Ireland, UK, obsolete A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .

verb fagots · fagoting · fagoted

transitive To make a fagot of (objects); to bind (objects) together in a fagot or bundle. He vvas too vvarm on Picking-vvork to dvvell, / But Faggotted his Notions as they fell, / And if they Rhim'd and Rattl'd all vvas vvell.

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@misc{fagot_2026,
  title = {fagot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fagot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}