houndeyes@toast.ooo to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoWhat did you call me?toast.oooimagemessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1836arrow-down15
arrow-up1831arrow-down1imageWhat did you call me?toast.ooohoundeyes@toast.ooo to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square67fedilink
minus-squareonipa@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 days agoFaggot is apparently a bundle of sticks (formerly a burdensome baggage)
minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoAlso the totally appropriate name for the bassoon in some languages, because it looks like a pile of sticks.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoThere’s a noodle called fagottini that I really want to try. I just can’t find it in the stores and I am not a noodle maker.
minus-squareboonhet@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoHey it’s spelled “fagott” so that’s a completely different and did not at all make terminally online teenage boys snicker 15+ years ago
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days agoFag in Norwegians has norse origins while faggot developed independently and only recently become a slur and come out of American vernacular. In older English it was used to mean a burdensome person and it’s sort of resumed that meaning as it’s now often used to mean someone who is annoying. Adding a fun double entendre when used to describe a homophobic person.
minus-squareHazel@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 days agoFrom fasces I think, same as fascism.
minus-squareKowowow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoI knew those leftists where the real nazi
Btw, where did faggot come from?
Faggot is apparently a bundle of sticks (formerly a burdensome baggage)
Also the totally appropriate name for the bassoon in some languages, because it looks like a pile of sticks.
There’s a noodle called fagottini that I really want to try. I just can’t find it in the stores and I am not a noodle maker.
Hey it’s spelled “fagott” so that’s a completely different and did not at all make terminally online teenage boys snicker 15+ years ago
Fag in Norwegians has norse origins while faggot developed independently and only recently become a slur and come out of American vernacular.
In older English it was used to mean a burdensome person and it’s sort of resumed that meaning as it’s now often used to mean someone who is annoying.
Adding a fun double entendre when used to describe a homophobic person.
From fasces I think, same as fascism.
I knew those leftists where the real nazi