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fagot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfæɡ.ət/ (UK)

Etymology

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).
   alt of faggot
   • What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy? c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
   • "Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun." 1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59:
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
   alt of faggot
3. (obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
4. (Ireland, UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .

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Deriveds

fagot iron · fagot vote · fagot voter · fagoter · sap fagot

fagot en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfæɡ.ət/ (UK)

Etymology

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

Meanings

1. (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. 1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 13:

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