fag

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.

2. 2

   A cigarette.

   • He′d Phase Out Fag Industry Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.
   • Oh, rent a flat above a shop / And cut your hair and get a job / And smoke some fags and play some pool / Pretend you never went to school
   • All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their wet fag ends into the fire.
3. 3

   The worst part or end of a thing.

   • Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.
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   1. 4

      A chore

      A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.

      • Keeping up appearances is a bit of a fag, I grant, but if a girl respects herself it’s up to her not to let herself get slack.
   2. 5

      A younger student acting as a servant for senior students (potentially in a sexual or…

      A younger student acting as a servant for senior students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).

      • I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.
      • “He was my fag at Eton,” Warrington said. “I ought to have licked him a little more.”
   3. 6

      To make exhausted, tired out.

   4. 7

      To droop

      To droop; to tire.

      • a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, "Fag", entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12, Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground.
   5. 8

      (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding…

      (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. To be the servant in fagging.

   6. 9

      To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way, in fagging.

      • It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers.
   7. 10

      To work hard, especially on menial chores.

      • I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.
   8. 11

      A homosexual man.

      • [1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716. Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”]
      • In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag," " fruit," etc.). ...
   9. 12

      An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.

   10. 13

       An annoying or contemptible person.

       • Why did you do that, you fag?

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