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Fag   /fæg/   Listen
noun
Fag  n.  
1.
A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw. (Obs.)
2.
A cigarette. (slang)
3.
A fag end in a cloth.
4.
A drudge.


fag  n.  A male homosexual; always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot. (Slang, disparaging.)
Synonyms: faggot.


verb
Fag  v. t.  
1.
To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
2.
Anything that fatigues. (R.) "It is such a fag, I came back tired to death."
Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.


Fag  v. i.  (past & past part. fagged; pres. part. fagging)  
1.
To become weary; to tire. "Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag."
2.
To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. "Read, fag, and subdue this chapter."
3.
To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.





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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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