fagots

1. a gay man.
2. a bundle of sticks bound together as fuel.
3. a ball or roll of seasoned chopped liver, baked or fried.
4. an unpleasant or contemptible woman.

1. bind in or make into faggots.
2. (in embroidery) join by faggoting.

Middle English (in the sense ‘bundle of sticks for fuel’): from Old French fagot, from Italian fagotto, based on Greek phakelos ‘bundle’.