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🚫 Offensive slur 🌲 Stick-like
faggoty

faggoty

1 9.9
Made of bundles of sticks used for fire or building
  • adjective
  • /ˈfæɡəti/
  • Archaic
: hecho con manojos
  • She carried a faggoty bundle of twigs to start the fire in the old hearth.

Examples

  • The hut's roof was covered with a faggoty layer of sticks for insulation.

  • He built a faggoty firewood stack in the backyard.

  • The villagers built a faggoty fence from the branches they collected in the forest.

  • The faggoty structure of the fence gave it a rustic charm.

  • The villagers built a faggoty fence from the branches they collected in the forest.

  • She carried a faggoty bundle of twigs to start the fire in the old hearth.

  • The hut's roof was covered with a faggoty layer of sticks for insulation.

Surface Forms

faggoty positive

Morphology

faggoty = faggot (transparent) = faggot + y

The adjective is a straightforward '-y' derivation from the noun 'faggot' meaning 'bundle of sticks', so the material/appearance sense is directly derived.

Etymology

Faggoty comes from the old word faggot, which meant a 'bundle of sticks'. So something called faggoty was made of, or looked like, many sticks tied together.