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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

... heard the Creoles to boast about. It may have been handsome enough in the Spaniard's Reign, or in King Charles the Second's; but I have heard that its most comely parts had been swallowed up by an Earthquake, and, when I remember it, the Main thoroughfare was like nothing half so much as the Fag End of Kent Street in the Borough, where the Broom-men live. As for public scavengers—humane at least—there were none; for that salutary practice of putting rebellious Blacks into chain-gangs, and making them sweep the streets,—which might be well ...

— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala

... it! I have no other alternative." He walked to the fireplace and warmed himself, humming the fag end of a tune in a rich convivial bass voice. "What does your side say?" he went on; "now pray tell me—what ...

— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins

... glutinous was obviously indicated. What with all this daylight-saving stuff, we had hit the great open spaces at a moment when twilight had not yet begun to cheese it in favour of the shades of night. There was a fag-end of sunset still functioning. Stars were beginning to peep out, bats were fooling round, the garden was full of the aroma of those niffy white flowers which only start to put in their heavy work at the end of the day—in short, the ...

— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

... madly at them yelling 'Fag!' When somehow something gives and your feet drag. You fall and strike your head; yet feel no pain And find ... you're digging tunnels through the hay In the Big Barn, 'cause it's a rainy day. Oh springy hay, and lovely beams to climb! You're back in the old sailor ...

— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various

... do. If you'll excuse my saying so. Alone! As you say; body fag is no cure for brain fag. Who told you to? No wonder; walking! And the sun on your head, heat, fag, solitude, all the day long, and then, I suppose, you go to ...

— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells

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