faggoty

English

Etymology

From faggot +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

faggoty (comparative faggotier, superlative faggotiest)

(rare) Relating to or consisting of faggots of wood.
(slang, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) Characteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones.
Synonyms: faggotish, faggy
- 1928, Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 129:
  And there is two things in Harlem I don't understan' / It is a bulldyking woman and a faggoty man
- 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:
  american critic ad 1935 / alias faggoty slob with a sob […]
- 1946, Edmund Gilligan, I Name Thee Mara, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 396:
  The performer appeared again. He darted out of the sail-cloth folds and danced forward in a mincing, faggotty step, his hips swaying.
- 1950, Jack Woodford [pseud. Josiah Pitts Woolfolk], The Loud Literary Lamas of New York, New York: Vantage Press, →OCLC, page 86:
  Our whole literature has become faggoty and Commie and epicene and androgynous. I say it stinks and the hell with it.
- 1959 February, Didgeon, “Arrow in the Air”, in Mattachine Review, San Francisco: Mattachine Society, →ISSN, page 6:
  My lieutenant was my bitterest opponent. "A queer's a queer," he insisted. "Christ, they’re no damn good, any of ’em. You know that. Why waste sympathy on the faggoty sonuvvabitch?"
- 1961, Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, spoken by Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier):
  How come all you college boys wear them faggoty-looking white shoes?
- 1964, Saul Bellow, Herzog, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 238:
  An alcoholic once, judged Herzog from the look of his skin, and there was a certain faggotty prissiness in his speech, too.
- 1971, “Sincerely Yours..: Letters to Editor”, in Drag: A Magazine About the Transvestite, volume 1, number 1, Queens Publications, →OCLC, page 30:
  [Letter No.] 3. I see the enemy of all drag queens.... the genuine gay, as those maze-yentas, the up-tight professional, epigoni-homosexual, and their loot-organisations who make a point in all the media to say that they are not swish, faggoty mad screaming, drag queens.... but just mutual cock-suckers.
- 1995 December 8, Albert Williams, “Ghost of Christmas Past”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:
  Also good are Johnny Lee Davenport's Strength, Lou Ferguson's God, adolescent Jay Kiecolt-Wahl's Five Wits, and Kyle Hall's Beauty; unfortunately, Alan Wilder's sleazy Goods, Marilyn Dodds Frank's country-hick Kindred, and David Alan Novak's faggoty Cousin rely on cheap-shot stereotypes (does he really have to flip a limp wrist when he says "thither"?)
- 2001, George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 107:
  Lacrosse is not a sport; lacrosse is a faggoty college activity. I don't care how rough it is, anytime you're running around a field, waving a stick with a little net on the end of it, you're engaged in a faggoty college activity.
- 2006 November 24, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:
  --is a big, fat, fucking, faggoty yes, NL. You're definitely one or the other.

Alternative forms

faggotty