Faggoting
/ˈfæɡətɪŋ/noun
The act of tying sticks into bundles or a decorative openwork embroidery technique made by joining fabric edges with stitches.
Did you know?The older word faggot meant a bundle of sticks, while the embroidery sense developed from the idea of joining or binding materials; the later insulting sense is a separate, historically later development with a disputed origin.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bhask-
“A bundle or grouping, a reconstructed root associated with binding or grouping material”
Ancient Latin
Latin
fascis
“A bundle, especially a bundle of rods carried or used together”
Ancient Rome
Latin
fasces
“Bundles of rods carried by lictors as symbols of magistrates’ authority”
Medieval French
Old French
fagot
“A bundle of sticks or firewood; probably related to Latin fascis through a Romance form”
14th Century
Middle English
fagot
“A bundle of sticks, especially one prepared for fuel”
16th–19th Century
English
faggot / faggoting
“Faggot came to mean tying or gathering sticks; faggoting later also referred to an openwork embroidery technique”
Modern English
English
faggoting
“Bundling sticks or producing decorative openwork embroidery by connecting fabric edges”