What does faggoted mean?
Faggoted is chiefly an adjective but also occurs as the past tense and past participle of the verb "faggot." As an adjective, it labels a person as homosexual or perceived to be homosexual; as a verb, it describes calling someone that slur. The expression is profoundly derogatory because "faggot" has long been used to demean gay men, and its history includes earlier uses of the word for a bundle of sticks and a general term of contempt. By the early twentieth century, especially in the United States, the term had become an openly anti-gay slur. Consequently, "faggoted" is not an acceptable synonym for "gay," "homosexual," or "queer" in ordinary or formal usage. It can appear in historical writing, literary analysis, quoted speech, or discussions of hate speech, where its intent and context should be made explicit. Some queer speakers reclaim the related slur, although that usage remains stigmatized and requires care. The word is worth knowing chiefly because it records a particularly severe history of homophobic abuse.
Highly derogatory: homosexual or perceived to be homosexual.
"His memoir describes the faggoted comments he received after coming out."
The sense can overlap with the passive or participial reading of the verb form.
To call or refer to someone as a faggot, using the term as a slur.
"The bullies faggoted the classmate until he stopped coming to school."
This is the simple past and past participle of the highly derogatory verb "faggot."
Its base word began as "a bundle of sticks"; the derived form became part of one of English's most notorious anti-gay slurs.
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Where does faggoted come from?
Faggoted was formed by adding the suffix -ed to faggot. Faggot entered English from French fagot, meaning a bundle of sticks, before developing into a term of contempt and, especially by the early twentieth century in the United States, an anti-gay slur. The related shortened form fag and the older spelling fagot share this history.
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How faggoted is actually used
Both uses are profoundly derogatory and normally unsuitable except in quotation, historical or literary analysis, discussion of hate speech, or clearly contextualized reclaimed usage. The adjective overlaps with the verb form and can also convey the sense of having been subjected to such abuse.
Easily confused with faggoted
Faggot is the base noun and source of the slur, whereas faggoted is its -ed form, functioning as an adjective or as a past-tense verb.