fagot
fagot is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.
- noun. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
- noun. A bassoon. See Fagotto.
- noun. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
- noun. An old shriveled woman.
- transitive verb. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
- noun. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- noun. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- verb. bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
"faggot up the sticks"
- verb. fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
- verb. ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
"He fagotted the blouse for his wife"
Synonyms
faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer
Common word forms
fagots, fagoted, fagoter, fagoting
Words from these letters
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