Is the word " FAGGOTT " offencive?

Answer 1

I find being unable to spell offensive offensive.

Answer 2

Hi Folks,

It can be taken to mean someone who is (as I have heard in the last few decades) "A Queer" or to mean "A gay person" but in jolly old England a few centuries ago the word represented some small kindling wood like small branches such as this: "The poor old woman had gathered a bundle of fagots to light her hearth and warm her home."

The term Queer itself used to mean "odd" or "unusual" but when it was later directed at people it was used with a significantly derogatory and insulting meaning.

Also, when people referred to "The Gay 90's" before the turn of the century and just around the time of the Industrial Revolution age, it did not mean that everyone was homosexual or lesbian but that these were "The good years" (more or less). Language is always evolving. This is meant to be informative and not insulting as posted here by me...... Carl

Answer 3

you are either very naive, or very asinine. Of course "faggott" is offencive. It is a rude word for homosexuals. It can also be used to call someone stupid or an idiot.

Answer 4

no, it makes me giggle
i think its coz my mum used to say faggott when she talked about girl bits!
im 27 now and a mother of 3 , and it still makes me giggle like a school girl when someone says faggott

Answer 5

It all depends on how it is being used...

****** (epithet), a pejorative term for a gay or effeminate man
****** (food), a British pork meatball
****** (unit of measurement), an archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks
****** (wood) (or fagot), bundle of sticks or branches
Faggots (novel), a novel by Larry Kramer
Faggoting (metalworking), a metalworking technique
Faggoting (knitting), a knitting term
Ashen ****** (or ashton fagot), a British Christmas tradition
Fire and ****** Parliament, an English Parliament of 1414.
Large ****** worm
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, an airplane whose NATO reporting name is Fagot
Bassoon, a musical instrument, known in many languages as fagot/fagotto

And in England - asking someone to "suck on a f@g" means to take a drag of a cigarette ;););)

Answer 6

to alot of people yes. I have alot of gay friends and faggott is not a nice word. None of them like it.

Answer 7

Faggott is a meatball made out of pork liver, onions in a rich onion sauce......
However in America it is offensive a derogatory tern for gay men...

Answer 8

It seems that today most words are offensive, Laura on big brother got told off for saying POOF. Uneffing believable isn't. It wouldn't surprise me if Bugs bunny was offensive.

Answer 9

a faggott is something you eat, faggart mean something totally different.

Answer 10

It wouldn't be the nicest thing to call a person, unless you were referring to a gay queer. You Brits really don't know the meaning of the word, you say it is everything from a cigar to meatball gravy,go ahead and eat your fagot gravy, and you accuse us of poor English.

Answer 11

Get a dictionary you lazy person. By the way spell check is an amazing tool that we use in the 21st century.