faggot

faggot
    n 1: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: {fagot},
         {faggot}, {fag}, {fairy}, {nance}, {pansy}, {queen},
         {queer}, {poof}, {poove}, {pouf}]
    2: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together [syn: {fagot},
       {faggot}]
    v 1: ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted
         the blouse for his wife" [syn: {faggot}, {fagot}]
    2: fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
       [syn: {faggot}, {fagot}]
    3: bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the
       sticks" [syn: {faggot}, {fagot}, {faggot up}]
    

faggot \fag"got\ (f[a^]g"[u^]t), n. [perh. from fagot[5], a
   shriveled old woman.]
   a male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and
   considered offensive. [Slang, disparaging]

   Syn: fagot, fag, fairy, pansy, queer, poof, poove, pouf.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

   2. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together; -- same as
      {fagot[1]}.

   Syn: fagot.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "faggot":
      auntie, bi-guy, bisexual, bull dyke, butch, catamite, chicken,
      dyke, fag, fairy, femme, flit, fricatrice, fruit, gunsel, homo,
      homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, invert, lesbian, nance,
      pansy, pathic, punk, queen, queer, sapphist, tribade