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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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faggot

/ˈfæɡət/ noun

Forms faggots faggoting faggoted fagot phaggot

  1. noun (chiefly UK, Ireland, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
  2. noun (obsolete) Burdensome baggage.
  3. noun A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
  4. noun (rare, dated in US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
  5. noun (chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork.
  6. noun (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar, anti-LGBTQ slur) A gay man, especially an effeminate one; (by extension) a non-heterosexual man.
  7. noun (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar, anti-LGBTQ slur, by extension) A homosexual person or non-heterosexual person of any gender.
  8. noun (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar, anti-LGBTQ slur, by extension) A queer person in general.

Synonyms

duck battle axe bitch brim brimstone cat cockatrice crow dragon fishwife harpy harridan hellcat jade nag nudnik scold she-devil shrew termagant fagot fag fairy nance pansy queen queer poof poove pouf

Etymology

From Middle English fagot, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), of uncertain origin. Unlikely from Old Occitan fagot or Italian fagotto, as these appear later than the Old French term. Compare also Italian fangotto and Spanish fajo (“bundle, wad”). Perhaps from a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle of wood”).
The senses relating to persons, though possibly originating as an extension of the sense "bundle of sticks" (compare baggage), may have been reinforced by fag, from fagging and/or by faygele, from Yiddish פֿייגעלע (feygele, “homosexual”, literally “little bird”), related to English fowl.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “faggot”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details