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Meaning of "faggery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FAGGERY

faggery  [ˈfæɡərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FAGGERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Faggery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FAGGERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of faggery in the English dictionary

The definition of faggery in the dictionary is a slang term for homosexuality. Other definition of faggery is the practice of fagging in public schools.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FAGGERY


allegory
ˈælɪɡərɪ
Calgary
ˈkælɡərɪ
carpetbaggery
ˈkɑːpɪtˌbæɡərɪ
category
ˈkætɪɡərɪ
gaggery
ˈɡæɡərɪ
Gregory
ˈɡrɛɡərɪ
Hungary
ˈhʌŋɡərɪ
jaggary
ˈdʒæɡərɪ
jaggery
ˈdʒæɡərɪ
jagghery
ˈdʒæɡərɪ
raggery
ˈræɡərɪ
ratbaggery
ˈrætˌbæɡərɪ
staggery
ˈstæɡərɪ
subcategory
ˈsʌbˌkætəɡərɪ
sugary
ˈʃʊɡərɪ
thuggery
ˈθʌɡərɪ
vinegary
ˈvɪnɪɡərɪ
waggery
ˈwæɡərɪ
windbaggery
ˈwɪndˌbæɡərɪ
zigzaggery
ˌzɪɡˈzæɡərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FAGGERY

faffy
Fafnir
fag
fag end
fag hag
fagaceous
fagged
fagged out
fagging
faggot
faggot vote
faggoting
faggotry
faggoty
faggy
fagin
fagot
fagoting
fagottist
fagotto

WORDS THAT END LIKE FAGGERY

buggery
doggery
eggery
figgery
froggery
groggery
hoggery
humbuggery
imagery
niggery
pettifoggery
piggery
priggery
sculduggery
skulduggery
skullduggery
smuggery
snuggery
toggery
Whiggery
wiggery

Synonyms and antonyms of faggery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «faggery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FAGGERY

Find out the translation of faggery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of faggery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «faggery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

faggery
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

faggery
570 millions of speakers

English

faggery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

faggery
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

faggery
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

faggery
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

faggery
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

faggery
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faggery
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Faggery
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

faggery
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

faggery
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

faggery
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Faggery
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

faggery
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

faggery
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चोच
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

faggery
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

faggery
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

faggery
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

faggery
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

faggery
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

faggery
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

faggery
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

faggery
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

faggery
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of faggery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FAGGERY»

The term «faggery» is barely ever used and occupies the 204.800 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FAGGERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «faggery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «faggery» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about faggery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAGGERY»

Discover the use of faggery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to faggery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
faggery,. fagging . Serving as a FAG, in a school: schoolboys'; from ca 1850, 1820, resp. De Quincey in his autobiographical sketches, 1853, 'Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands.' ...
Eric Partridge, 2003
2
Studies in Etymology and Etiology: With Emphasis on ...
With respect to the words fag, fagger, faggery, and fagging, I have no opinion one way or the other. Nonetheless, it should be noted that the first vowel of those common nouns is /æ/ whereas that of Fagin 1 is /ei/, so that the similarity is more  ...
David L. Gold, Antonio Lillo Buades, Félix Rodríguez González, 2009
3
Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise ...
246 The legislation, therefore, exacerbated the financial crisis in the city. For some, the pressure was too much to bear. Samuel Faggery, anxious about the future of his deposits, demanded his share of the gold and silver housed in the Bank of ...
Jeffrey S. Adler, 2002
4
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Ex official fag-day. .faggery, fagging. Serving as a fag, q.v., in a school: schoolboys'; from ca. 1850, 1820, resp. De Quincey in his autobiographical sketches, 1853, 'Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
5
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Dr. M. when he made this discovery, ceased to wonder at the medical symptoms; and as faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands, he lodged no idle complaints, but simply removed his sons to a school ...
6
Rice Cook Book
METHOD TO PROCESS RASUA Mix faggery with liquid content of two coconut pieces when faggery is fully dissolved in coconut water, add powder of cardamon . Such Pani-Pooly tastes deliciously if eaten with a saltish chani. VlPATTU ...
Neera Verma
7
The public school word-book
Hence fagger, fag-maSter, fAGgINg, and FAGgERY. 1853. De Quincey, Autob. Sketches, i. 210. Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands. 1873. Pall Mall Gazette, 17th May. The Winchester "tunding" ...
John Stephen Farmer, 1900
8
The American Dictionary of the English Language: Based on ...
Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands." — De Quincey. FAGOT or FAGGOT, fag'ut, n. a bundle of sticks used for fuel : a stick : anything like a fagot : a soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not  ...
‎1899
9
The Boy's Own Annual
The faggery was no more, nor was the hall, or the dormitory. \Ve were being put up temporarily in a town house just outside the school gates, a good deal to the wrath of some of our number, who felt it was putting them down to the level of the  ...
10
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete ...
Faggery (fog'er-i), n. Fatiguing labour or drudgery; the system of fogging carried on at some public schools. Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands. De Qmntty. Faggot, n. [add.] In former times heretics ...
John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale, 1883

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAGGERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term faggery is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail
... he'd spend entire nights "on Second Life riding around in a virtual spaceship with the words 'faggery daggery doo' written on it, wearing Afros ... «RollingStone.com, Sep 13»
2
From The Vault Of Art Shay: Potty Humor
Of course the comic Sacha Baron Cohen opened the Hollywood underwear to modern potty humor, adding fake faggery , a cruel comic ... «Chicagoist, Jul 13»
3
Rupert Everett's Fetchingly Flabby Bottom
I'm sure they enjoyed his hag faggery but also that exhilaratingly tart honesty. (Apparently Madonna always smells "vaguely of sweat."). «Huffington Post, May 13»
4
Happy Pi Day!
I didn't get it, but I was intrigued by this mad scientist of experimental art-faggery, like watching live erotica through plate glass. Not that I ever. «San Diego Reader, Mar 10»

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