SC - OOP-belgian fries

[Marilyn Traber]

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:29:56 -0700 Ronda Del Boccio <Serian at plinet.com>
writes:
>I've also seen references asking someone to put another faggot on the 
>fire. Again, a stick.
>Serian

More correctly, a bundle of sticks.  Used as a unit for firestarting. 
This burning bundle of sticks is where a cigarette gets it's name
'faggot', or a burning stick. 
Here is the entirety of the entry from the "1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar
Tongue"
	Faggot. A man hired at a muster to appear as a soldier.  To
faggot in the canting sense, means to bind: as allusion to the faggots
made up by the woodmen, which are all bound.  'Faggot the culls'; bind
the men. 
	To Fag. To Beat.  Fag the bloss; beat the wench.  A fag also
means a boy of an inferior form or class, who acts as a servant to one of
a superior, who is said to fag him, he is my fag; whence, perhaps, fagged
out, for jaded or tired.  To stand a good fag; not to be soon tired.  
So, I suppose we can extrapolate from there where the current American
derogetory slang came from.  
And this, from the Oxford English Dictionary:

Fag- sb.-1486.  A cigarette (slang)1883.  v- (said to be a corruption of
FLAG) 1530.  To flag, droop. 2. to do something that wearies one; to
toil, 1772.  5.Nautical- to untwist or wear out the end of a rope or the
edge of canvas 1841. 

Fag-end 1613. The last part of a piece of cloth; the coarser part that
hangs loose; an untwisted end of rope 1721.  2. the last and poorest part
of anything; the extreme end.  

Faggot, fagot 1. a bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees
bound together for use as fuel, in fascines, or the like.  2. fig. the
punishment of burning alive, as heretics 1555.  3. a bundle in general;
fig. a collection 1489.  4. A bundle of iron or steel rods bound together
1540.  5. A term of abuse applied to a woman.1591.  6. A person hired to
supply a deficiency at the muster; a dummy 1802.

Faggot. v. 1543 1. To make a faggot of; to bind up in or as in a faggot
1598.  

	So, based on Eliysant's description of the meatball-like faggots,
I'm guessing the term either refers to the fact that the food product is
ground up trimmings, or the 'last parts', or, the binding up of them for
cooking purposes, or even the act of mixing and 'binding' up all of the
ingredients.  Or maybe all of the above.  

	Mistress Christianna MacGrain

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