Etymology Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.
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Alternative Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).
What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
"Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59:
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Alternative Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
Etymology Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.
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To make a fagot of (objects); to bind (objects) together in a fagot or bundle.
He vvas too vvarm on Picking-vvork to dvvell, / But Faggotted his Notions as they fell, / And if they Rhim'd and Rattl'd all vvas vvell.1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 13: