faggoty

comparative more faggoty · comparative faggotier · superlative most faggoty · superlative faggotiest · alternative faggotty

1. rareRelating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
2. derogatoryoffensiveslangvulgarCharacteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones.

   american critic ad 1935 / alias faggoty slob with a sob […]

   1935, E. E. Cummings, “american critic ad 1935”, in George J. Firmage, editor, Complete Poems, 1904-1962, Revised, corrected, and expanded edition, New York: Liveright, published 1991, →ISBN, page 901

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   And there is two things in Harlem I don't understan' / It is a bulldyking woman and a faggoty man

   1928, Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 129

   Our whole literature has become faggoty and Commie and epicene and androgynous. I say it stinks and the hell with it.

   1950, Jack Woodford [pseud. Josiah Pitts Woolfolk], The Loud Literary Lamas of New York, New York: Vantage Press, →OCLC, page 86

   My lieutenant was my bitterest opponent. "A queer's a queer," he insisted. "Christ, they’re no damn good, any of ’em. You know that. Why waste sympathy on the faggoty sonuvvabitch?"

   1959 February, Didgeon, “Arrow in the Air”, in Mattachine Review, San Francisco: Mattachine Society, →ISSN, page 6

   How come all you college boys wear them faggoty-looking white shoes?

   1961, Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, spoken by Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier)

   [Letter No.] 3. I see the enemy of all drag queens.... the genuine gay, as those maze-yentas, the up-tight professional, epigoni-homosexual, and their loot-organisations who make a point in all the media to say that they are not swish, faggoty mad screaming, drag queens.... but just mutual cock-suckers.

   1971, “Sincerely Yours..: Letters to Editor”, in Drag: A Magazine About the Transvestite, volume 1, number 1, Queens Publications, →OCLC, page 30

   Synonyms: faggotish, faggy