Etymology

faggotry

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Today it means: The stereotypical behaviors of a gay man or homosexuality in general. Full definition →

English faggot ← Middle English fagot ← Old French fagot
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The story

  1. Ancient Greekφάκελος (phákelos)
  2. Vulgar Latin*facusder.?
  3. Old Frenchfagot
  4. Middle Englishfagot
  5. Englishfaggot
  6. English todayfaggotry

From faggot + -ry.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.