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Fag   /fæg/   Listen
Fag

noun
1.
Offensive term for an openly homosexual man.  Synonyms: faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer.
2.
Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking.  Synonyms: butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail.
verb
(past & past part. fagged; pres. part. fagging)
1.
Act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools.
2.
Work hard.  Synonyms: dig, drudge, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail.  "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
3.
Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.  Synonyms: fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary.



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"Fag" Quotes from Famous Books



... for you, old boy," said Father Payne. "You are learning to live, and you are living. But an old fellow like me, who has got in the way of it, and has found out at last how good it is to be alive, has to realise that he has only got a fag-end left. I don't at all want to die; I've got my hands as full as they can hold of pretty and delightful things; and I don't at all want to be cut down like the copse, and to have to build up my branches again. Yes," he added, pondering, "I used to think I should not live ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
... in great anger at her obstinacy, and Frank and Die together sought the den of the Justice, to which they were guided by a high voice chanting the fag-end of an old bottle-song: ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... in his life and in his poetry, as nearly a disembodied spirit as a human creature can be. The German poet, Heine, said that liberty was the religion of this century, {257} and of this religion Shelley was a worshiper. His rebellion against authority began early. He refused to fag at Eton, and was expelled from Oxford for publishing a tract on the Necessity of Atheism. At nineteen, he ran away with Harriet Westbrook, and was married to her in Scotland. Three years later he deserted her for Mary Godwin, with ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... passed his first examinations and was made a sizar. Before this he had been fag to everybody, but now he was fag to the Seniors only. He not only made their beds and cleaned their rooms, but also worked their examples in mathematics, and ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists • Elbert Hubbard
... It was the fag end of the London season; people were talking about Goodwood and the Ryde week, about grouse and about salmon-fishing. Members of Parliament went about, like martyrs at the stake, groaning over the interminable nature of every debate, and shaking ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron


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