Resembling or made of bundles of sticks; having a bundled or clustered appearance.
From faggot (a bundle of sticks) + -y (adjective suffix). The word derives from Old French fagot, possibly from Italian fagotto, related to Latin fascis meaning bundle. The adjectival form emerged in Middle English to describe things with a bundled structure.
This word shows how the same root gave us different meanings: bundles of sticks in medieval England, a British meat dish, and musical instruments like the bassoon—all from the concept of things bundled together.
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