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faggoty en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From faggot + -y.

Meanings

1. (rare) Relating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
2. (derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar) Characteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones.
   • Our whole literature has become faggoty and Commie and epicene and androgynous. I say it stinks and the hell with it. 1950, Jack Woodford [pseud. Josiah Pitts Woolfolk], The Loud Literary Lamas of New York, New York: Vantage Press, →OCLC, page 86:
   • --is a big, fat, fucking, faggoty yes, NL. You're definitely one or the other. 2006 November 24, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Chicago Reader:
   • american critic ad 1935 / alias faggoty slob with a sob […] 1935, E. E. Cummings, “american critic ad 1935”, in George J. Firmage, editor, Complete Poems, 1904-1962, Revised, corrected, and expanded edition, New York: Liveright, published 1991, →ISBN, page 901:
   • Lacrosse is not a sport; lacrosse is a faggoty college activity. I don't care how rough it is, anytime you're running around a field, waving a stick with a little net on the end of it, you're engaged in a faggoty college activity. 2001, George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 107:
   • My lieutenant was my bitterest opponent. "A queer's a queer," he insisted. "Christ, they’re no damn good, any of ’em. You know that. Why waste sympathy on the faggoty sonuvvabitch?" 1959 February, Didgeon, “Arrow in the Air”, in Mattachine Review, San Francisco: Mattachine Society, →ISSN, page 6:
   • Also good are Johnny Lee Davenport's Strength, Lou Ferguson's God, adolescent Jay Kiecolt-Wahl's Five Wits, and Kyle Hall's Beauty; unfortunately, Alan Wilder's sleazy Goods, Marilyn Dodds Frank's country-hick Kindred, and David Alan Novak's faggoty Cousin rely on cheap-shot stereotypes (does he really have to flip a limp wrist when he says "thither"?) 1995 December 8, Albert Williams, “Ghost of Christmas Past”, in Chicago Reader:
   • How come all you college boys wear them faggoty-looking white shoes? 1961, Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, spoken by Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier):
   • And there is two things in Harlem I don't understan' / It is a bulldyking woman and a faggoty man 1928, Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 129:
   • [Letter No.] 3. I see the enemy of all drag queens.... the genuine gay, as those maze-yentas, the up-tight professional, epigoni-homosexual, and their loot-organisations who make a point in all the media to say that they are not swish, faggoty mad screaming, drag queens.... but just mutual cock-suckers. 1971, “Sincerely Yours..: Letters to Editor”, in Drag: A Magazine About the Transvestite, volume 1, number 1, Queens Publications, →OCLC, page 30:

Forms

Synonyms

faggy · faggotish