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What (who) is Fag - definition
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Fags; Fag (disambiguation); FAG
fag
I. v. n.
1.
Droop, sink, flag, grow weary, become fatigued, be tired.
2.
Drudge, toil, work to weariness.
3.
Be a fag, play the fag, do menial service.
II. v. a.
1.
Make a fag of, compel to serve or drudge.
2.
Tire, weary, fatigue, jade, use up, tire out, exhaust.
III. n.
[Especially applied in England to a schoolboy who does menial service for another.] Drudge, menial, slave.
Fag
·vt Anything that fatigues.
II. Fag ·noun A knot or coarse part in cloth.
III. Fag ·vi To become weary; to Tire.
IV. Fag ·vi To labor to wearness; to work hard; to Drudge.
V. Fag ·vt To tire by labor; to Exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
VI. Fag ·vi To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
fag
fag1
Brit.
¦ noun
1. informal a tiring or unwelcome task.
2. a junior pupil at a public school who does minor chores for a senior pupil.
¦ verb (fags, fagging, fagged)
1. informal work hard.
2. (of a public-school pupil) act as a fag.
3. [as adjective fagged out] informal, chiefly Brit. exhausted.
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'grow weary'): of unknown origin; cf. flag4.
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fag2
¦ noun N. Amer. informal, derogatory a male homosexual.
Derivatives
faggy adjective
Origin
1920s: short for faggot (in sense 3).
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fag3
¦ noun Brit. informal a cigarette.
Origin
C19: elliptically from fag end.
Wikipedia
Fag
Fag may refer to:
- FAG, a brand of the Schaeffler Group
- Cigarette, in British slang
- Fagging, in British public schools
- Faggot (slang) or fag, a pejorative term for a homosexual
- FAGS (candy), now FADS, an Australian candy
- Fagurhólsmýri Airport, in Iceland by IATA code
- Federação Anarquista Gaúcha, a Brazilian anarchist organization
- Feminist Art Gallery, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Finongan language, spoken in Papua New Guinea (ISO 639 code)
- Fluorescein angiography
- Frisch Auf Göppingen, a German sport club
- Fuerzas Armadas Guanches, a terrorist group in the Canary Islands
- Guatemalan Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea Guatemalteca)
Examples of use of Fag
1. At Eton, if you were a fag master you chose the prettiest fag from among the lower boys.
2. He called to pick me up from Newcastle station, and proceeded to light fag after fag as he drove us home.
3. Richard Morrison MY BETTER half has not lit a fag for five weeks and 18 hours.
4. Timo‘s eyes brightened for a moment and he removed the sodden fag–end from his mouth.
5. We had fagging at Harrow, but when I was a fag I was never propositioned.