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faggots faggots!

Italian translation: salsicciotti, salsicciotti!

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English term or phrase:faggots faggots!
Italian translation:salsicciotti, salsicciotti!
Entered by: Vittorio Preite

13:31 Nov 7, 2005
English to Italian translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: faggots faggots!
buongiorno a tutti, sto traducendo un libro su londra e in questo capitolo parla della peste. Non saprei proprio come tradurre faggots, mi è stato detto che è la parola estesa di fag (omosessuale in senso dispregiativo o sigaretta)ma non riesco a riferirla a dei bambini.

Invio un pò di contesto: Some of the bodies `were wrapt up in linen sheets, so loose that what covering they had fell from them in the shooting out of the cart'. There was one driver who `When he had any children in his dead cart could cry "Faggots, faggots, five for sixpence" and take up a child by the leg'.

Vi ringrazio moltissimo dell'aiuto,

Francesca
francesca
salsicciotti,. salsicciotti. 5 per 6 pence.
Explanation:
Lasciando stare i riferimenti omo, che al tempo della peste venivano chiamato con altri nomi, ch è stato in Scozia conosce questa (specialità) fatta con lo stomaco di pecora farcito con carne e spezie. (e chi più ne ha più ne mette) provate su Google a chiedere : faggot food, per evitare gli altri significati.
Io penso che con umore macabro e per alleviare il suo lavoro tristissimo, il carrettiere si sia messo a urlare "faggots, faggots" che io ho tradotto come "salsicciotti" non conoscendo un corrispondente in italiano che usi gli stessi ingredienti. I 6 pence chiesti corrispondevano al mezzo scellino di una volta.
Dei cadaveri sarebbero stati davvero inutili come combustibile e manca l'umorismo (nero).
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Vittorio Preite
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:41
Grading comment
grazie di cuore!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3legna! legna da ardere
Sabina Moscatelli
3 +2fagottini
hirselina
4 +1salsicciotti,. salsicciotti. 5 per 6 pence.
Vittorio Preite
3fascina ma anche (vedi sotto)
Clelia Tarasco
3schiavetti
Alf_Sof Minio


  

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fascina ma anche (vedi sotto)


Explanation:
Ragazzini per faggot dà fascio, fascina (di legno o metallo) ma anche "interiora di maiale cotte al forno"
Non fa riferimento ad altri sognificati slang
Non so se nel tuo contesto può servire a qualcosa!!

Clelia Tarasco
Local time: 13:41
Native speaker of: Italian
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legna! legna da ardere


Explanation:
è vero che faggot significa omosessuale, ma anche legna da ardere (e pure polpette).



Sabina Moscatelli
Italy
Local time: 13:41
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  giogi: legnetti da bruciare!
1 hr
agree  piannici
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agree  AdamiAkaPataflo
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
fagottini


Explanation:
The term faggot or fagot, meaning bundle of sticks, shows up around 1300 in English. It almost certainly came from Old French, possibly going back to Greek phakelos. Since those bundles of sticks were mainly used for fires, it's not surprising that the term came to mean burning sticks. Then there was that nasty business in medieval times where heretics were burned at the stake. Some later cites indicate heretics who repented and were spared a fiery death had to wear a picture of a faggot on their sleeve to show what might have been their fate.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mfaggot.html

hirselina
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  gianfranco
26 mins
agree  Vjekoslav Pavic: the term probably comes from the Latin fax, facis meaning a torch.
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schiavetti


Explanation:
"Fag" was also a term used for a junior boy who acted as a servant for a senior boy at Eton College, near Eton, Berkshire, and other British public schools. This practice, known as "fagging", was ended in the 1970s.

Alf_Sof Minio
Italy
Local time: 13:41
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
salsicciotti,. salsicciotti. 5 per 6 pence.


Explanation:
Lasciando stare i riferimenti omo, che al tempo della peste venivano chiamato con altri nomi, ch è stato in Scozia conosce questa (specialità) fatta con lo stomaco di pecora farcito con carne e spezie. (e chi più ne ha più ne mette) provate su Google a chiedere : faggot food, per evitare gli altri significati.
Io penso che con umore macabro e per alleviare il suo lavoro tristissimo, il carrettiere si sia messo a urlare "faggots, faggots" che io ho tradotto come "salsicciotti" non conoscendo un corrispondente in italiano che usi gli stessi ingredienti. I 6 pence chiesti corrispondevano al mezzo scellino di una volta.
Dei cadaveri sarebbero stati davvero inutili come combustibile e manca l'umorismo (nero).

Vittorio Preite
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:41
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
grazie di cuore!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  hirselina: Bravo! http://www.answers.com/topic/faggot-food
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