When I was in 4th grade, in the '70's the obnoxious boys would call people faggots. Nobody knew what it meant. The school dictionary said it was a bundle of sticks. I had a assumed it meant uncool, as did most everybody else. One small kid asked the jerks why they called him a bundle of sticks, he got roughed up but they no longer said faggot.
*snigger* - I like that story.