Meanings
plural f*ggots · alternative f@ggot · alternative fggot
- Censored spelling of faggot (“a gay man”).
Lil wayne just dropped even lower on my list for calling michael jackson a f*ggot...what disrespect he has shown
2009 July 26, poeticnerd, Twitter3 more examples
You can't include name-calling in the category of violence. There is a VERY big difference between calling someone a Nazi, or a motherf*cker, or even a n*gger f*ggot (if you feel you must), and sticking that person with a knife or hitting him with tear gas and night sticks.
1993 January 8, Julie Petersen, “A Public Apology”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet)You would never be so foolish as to call a black man a "n*gger", so therefore you will never be so foolish as to call a homosexual man a "f*ggot" in our very tolerant city.
1998 October 20, Rob Arch Ward, “Regarding reationaries' handling of Matthew Shepherd's murder”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet)I've been called a f*ggot, & I act like a girl, since the age of 5/6... fast forward to today.. They all are missing their side tooth & look like goblins
2023 December 10, iDREWit, Twitter
Origin
A substitution of the first vowel with an asterisk * (“used to censor sections of obscene or profane words”).
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f*ggot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/f%2Aggot
“f*ggot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/f%2Aggot. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “f*ggot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/f%2Aggot.
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