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Fagot vs Gay - What's the difference?

fagot | gay |

As nouns the difference between fagot and gay

is that fagot is alternative form of lang=en bundle of sticks while gay is a homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.

As verbs the difference between fagot and gay

is that fagot is to make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle while gay is to make happy or cheerful.

As a proper noun Gay is

{{surname|A=An|English|from=nicknames}}, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.

As an adjective gay is

happy, joyful, and lively.

fagot

English

(wikipedia fagot)

Alternative forms

* faggot

Noun

(en noun)
  • (bundle of sticks)
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (shrivelled old woman)
  • 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.
  • (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
  • (UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
    • (Addison)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
    • (Dryden)
    ----

    gay

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  • from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
  • . Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
    • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
  • * 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
    • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
    "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -

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