faggy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfæɡi/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: fag‧gy
Adjective
faggy (comparative faggier, superlative faggiest)
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, informal, vulgar) Effeminate; homosexual; gay.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
- Nat Hanmer was sitting on the floor beside him, and his warm thigh was pressed against his own. There was something charmingly faggy about Nat tonight. He nodded and smiled into Nick's eyes as he was talking.
Derived terms
Scots
Etymology
fag (“fail from weariness, flag, falter”) + -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfaɡɪ]