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Webster 1913 Edition


Fagot

Fag′ot

Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fagoted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Fagoting
.]
To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fagot

FAG'OT

,
Noun.
[Gr. See Fadge. The sense is a bundle or collection, like pack.]
1.
A bundle of sticks, twigs or small branches of trees, used for fuel, or for raising batteries, filling ditches, and other purposes in fortification. The French use fascine, from the L. fascis, a bundle; a term now adopted in English.
2.
A person hired to appear at musters in a company not full and hide the deficiency.

FAG'OT

,
Verb.
T.
To tie together; to bind in a bundle; to collect promiscuously.

Definition 2024


fagot

fagot

English

Alternative forms

Noun

fagot (plural fagots)

  1. Alternative form of faggot (bundle of sticks)
  2. Alternative form of faggot (shrivelled old woman)
  3. Alternative form of faggot (a gay person, particularly a man)
  4. 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.
  5. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
  6. (Britain, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
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Verb

fagot (third-person singular simple present fagots, present participle fagoting, simple past and past participle fagoted)

  1. (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
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Catalan

Etymology

From Italian fagotto.

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

  1. bassoon (wind instrument)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fagɔt]

Noun

fagot m

  1. bassoon (musical instrument)

Declension


Danish

Etymology

From French fagot, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faɡɔt/, [faˈɡ̊ʌd̥], [fɑˈɡ̊ʌd̥]

Noun

fagot c (singular definite fagotten, plural indefinite fagotter)

  1. bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

Declension

References


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faːˈɣɔt/
  • Hyphenation: fa‧got

Etymology

From Italian fagotto. So called from being divided into parts for ease of carrying, making it a sort of small bundle or fagot.

Noun

fagot m (plural fagotten, diminutive fagotje n)

  1. bassoon

Derived terms


French

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

  1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

Lower Sorbian

dwa fagota

Etymology

Borrowing from German Fagott, from Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈɡɔt/

Noun

fagot m

  1. bassoon

Declension


Middle French

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

  1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

Old French

Noun

fagot m (oblique plural fagoz or fagotz, nominative singular fagoz or fagotz, nominative plural fagot)

  1. fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together)

References


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfa.ɡɔt/

Noun

fagot m inan

  1. (music) bassoon

Declension

Related terms

  • fagocista m, fagocistka f
  • fagotowy

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian fagotto.

Noun

fagot n (plural fagoturi)

  1. bassoon (reed instrument)

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Noun

fàgot m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀гот)

  1. bassoon

Declension


Slovak

Noun

fagot m (genitive singular fagotu, nominative plural fagoty, declension pattern of dub)

  1. (music) bassoon

Declension


Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈɡóːt/
  • Tonal orthography: fagọ̑t

Noun

fagót m inan (genitive fagóta, nominative plural fagóti)

  1. (music) bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)

Declension


Spanish

Noun

fagot m (plural fagots)

  1. (music) bassoon

Turkish

Etymology

From Italian fagotto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fɑˈgot]

Noun

fagot (definite accusative fagotu, plural fagotlar)

  1. A bassoon (reed instrument)

Declension