Faggot, faggots, or faggoting may refer to:

Arts and crafts

Faggoting (metalworking) Faggoting or faggoting and folding is a metalworking technique used in the smelting and forging of wrought iron, blister steel, and other steel. Faggoting is a process in which rods or bars of iron and/or steel are gathered (like a bundle of st ...

, forge welding a bundle of bars of iron and steel * Faggoting (knitting), variation of lace knitting in which every stitch is a yarn over or a decrease * Faggoting stitch,

featherstitch Featherstitch or feather stitch and Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch are embroidery techniques made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.Reader's Digest ''Complete Guide to Needlework''. The Reader' ...

, or Cretan stitch, embroidery stitch used to make decorative seams or to attach insertions * Bassoon, called fagotto, faggot, fagott, fagot in other languages

Biology

Faggot cell Faggot cells are cells normally found in the hypergranular form of acute promyelocytic leukemia (FAB - M3). These promyelocytes (not blast cells) have numerous Auer rods in the cytoplasm which gives the appearance of a bundle of sticks, from whic ...

, cell type found in acute promyelocytic leukemia * ''

Eumeta crameri ''Eumeta crameri'' is a bagworm moth of the family Psychidae. It was described by John O. Westwood in 1854 and has worldwide distribution in tropical and subtropical habitats, including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Puerto Rico. ...

'' or faggot worm, from the bundles of twigs it binds to itself

Branch

* faggot or fagot,

branch A branch, sometimes called a ramus in botany, is a woody structural member connected to the central trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub). Large branches are known as boughs and small branches are known as twigs. The term '' twig'' usually ...

or twig, or bundle of these **

Fascine A fascine is a rough bundle of brushwood or other material used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across uneven or wet terrain. Typical uses are protecting the banks of streams from erosion, covering marshy ground and s ...

, bundle of brushwood used in civil and military engineering ** Fasces, ancient symbol of an axe bound in a bundle of rods **

Faggot (unit) A faggot, in the meaning of "bundle", is an archaic English unit applied to bundles of certain items. Alternate spellings in Early Modern English include ''fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott,'' and ''faggat''. A simila ...

, archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks

Food

Faggot (food) Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs. It is a traditional dish in the U ...

, British meatball commonly made of pork offal

Slang

Faggot (slang) ''Faggot'', often shortened to ''fag'', is a usually pejorative term used to refer to gay men. In American youth culture around the turn of the 21st century, its meaning extended as a broader reaching insult more related to masculinity and grou ...

, a pejorative for a gay man :* ''Faggots'' (novel), 1978 novel by Larry Kramer :*''Faggot'', a track from ''

Deadbeat Hero ''Deadbeat Hero'' is Doug Stanhope's second stand-up comedy DVD and his fifth CD. Recorded at the Comedy Underground in Seattle, Washington in 2004, originally produced by Shout Factory, and released as part of the Ad Lib Breakout Comedy Series. ...

'' by Doug Stanhope :*"Faggot", a song by

Mindless Self Indulgence Mindless Self Indulgence (often referred to as MSI) is an American electropunk band formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style which includes punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno, industrial, hip hop, and brea ...

:*"Faggot", a song by Arca from ''

Mutant In biology, and especially in genetics, a mutant is an organism or a new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is generally an alteration of the DNA sequence of the genome or chromosome of an organism. It ...

'' :* Faget (song), by American band Korn

Surname

Jacob Faggot Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Isla ...

(1699–1777), Swedish scientist * Nicholas Faggot, character in the 1824 novel ''

Redgauntlet ''Redgauntlet'' (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as "in a sense, the ...

'' by Sir Walter Scott

Other

* Faggot, Northumberland, uninhabited island off England *

Ashen faggot The ashen faggot (also known as ashton fagot) is an old England, English Christmas tradition from Devon and Somerset, similar to that of the Yule log and related to the wassail tradition. A faggot (unit), faggot is a large log or a bundle of ash s ...

, English West country Christmas tradition *

Faggot voter A faggot voter or faggot was a person who qualified to vote in an election with a restricted suffrage only by the exploitation of loopholes in the regulations. Typically, faggot voters satisfied a property qualification by holding the title to a s ...

, exploiting an electoral abuse *''The Faggot'', 1876 book by

Charles Tylor Charles Tylor (2 November 1816 – 14 March 1902) was an English Quakers, Quaker author. He was the founding editor of Quaker weekly publication, ''The Friend (Quaker), The Friend''.Society of Friends (1902). ''Extracts from the minutes and procee ...