Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) effeminate, homosexual.

1945		D. Stoddart Prelude to Night 412: Two white women had entered with a faggy white youth.
1951		J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye (1958) 6: You could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school except me was there, and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side.
1967		L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 135: Too faggy! Next?
1968		Jagger & Richards ‘Memo from Turner’ 🎵 I remember you in Hemlock Road in 1956 / You’re a faggy little leather boy with a smaller piece of stick.
1975		J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 149: I think it’s faggy and uppity to talk like that.
1989		M. Amis London Fields 116: Yes, there was definitely something puppyish, something almost faggy, going on up there, when like plays with like.
1997		Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 304: Not enough to have some gay-ass manager lookin’ at me that way [...] I know his faggy ass as black as mine.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 145: Spurgeon was a yawn. Duane Hinton was a snore. Eldon Peavy was a faggy snooze.
2004		Guardian Rev. 16 Oct. 27: The verbal curlicues, the faggy flippancy all fall away.
2016		T. Robinson Rough Trade [ebook] ‘Everything and everyone he considers to be less than living up to his own scale of masculinity is [...] “faggy”’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 298: That faggot at the bar came on, well, all faggy.