Fagot vs Gay - What's the difference?
fagot | gay |
(bundle of sticks)
(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.
, 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
* 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
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
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(wikipedia fagot)Alternative forms
* faggotNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- (Addison)
gay
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - 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,
- "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.- - -