faggoty
faggoty adjective: relating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
Adjective
faggoty (comparative more faggoty or faggotier, superlative most faggoty or faggotiest)
- Relating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
- Characteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones.
- And there is two things in Harlem I don't understan' / It is a bulldyking woman and a faggoty man1928, Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 129
- 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
Examples of faggoty in a sentence
- Our whole literature has become faggoty and Commie and epicene and androgynous.1950, Jack Woodford [pseud. Josiah Pitts Woolfolk], The Loud Literary Lamas of New York, New York: Vantage Press, →OCLC, page 86:
- 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):
- Lacrosse is not a sport; lacrosse is a faggoty college activity.2001, George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 107:
Synonyms of faggoty
Forms of faggoty
| comparative | more faggoty |
|---|---|
| comparative | faggotier |
| superlative | most faggoty |
| superlative | faggotiest |
| alternative form | faggotty |
Origin of faggoty
From faggot + -y.
Questions about faggoty
- What does faggoty mean?
- Faggoty means relating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
- How do you use faggoty in a sentence?
- Our whole literature has become faggoty and Commie and epicene and androgynous.
- What part of speech is faggoty?
- Faggoty is an adjective.
Words near faggoty in the dictionary
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