Fag

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A student at a boarding school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher grade.
  • noun. A drudge.
  • noun. Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.
  • intransitive verb. To exhaust; weary.
  • intransitive verb. To work to exhaustion; toil.
  • intransitive verb. To function as the servant of another student in a boarding school.
  • noun. A cigarette.
  • noun. Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The fringe at the end of a piece of cloth, or at the end of a rope.
  • noun. The end; fag-end.
  • noun. A knot or blemish in the web of cloth; an imperfect or coarse part of such a web.
  • noun. Long, coarse grass.
  • To become weary; fail in strength; be faint with weariness.
  • To labor hard or assiduously; work till wearied.
  • To act as a fag; perform menial services for another.
  • To tire by labor; exhaust: often with out.
  • To use or treat as a fag or drudge; compel to labor for one's benefit; cause to perform menial services for one.
  • To beat.
  • To become untwisted, as the end of a rope; ravel: usually with out.
  • noun. A mink.
  • noun. A laborious drudge.
  • noun. In certain English public schools, as Eton, Harrow, and Winchester, a schoolboy of a lower class who performs menial services for another boy who is in the highest or next highest form or class, having to prepare his breakfast, carry messages, etc., in return for which protection and assistance in various ways are accorded. The system of fagging is now much milder than formerly.
  • noun. A fatiguing or tiring piece of work; a wearisome task.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To tire by labor; to exhaust.
  • transitive verb. Anything that fatigues.
  • transitive verb. See Cerebropathy.
  • noun. a male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot.
  • noun. A knot or coarse part in cloth.
  • intransitive verb. To become weary; to tire.
  • intransitive verb. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
  • intransitive verb. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
  • intransitive verb. to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A homosexual person, especially a male.
  • noun. A particularly conspicuous non-straight-acting homosexual male.
  • noun. An annoying person.
  • noun. A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
  • noun. Term used in UK public schools for a younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
  • verb. To make exhausted, tired out.
  • verb. To droop; to tire.
  • verb. For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in UK public schools.
  • noun. In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
  • noun. A photovoltaic cell that is no longer in use.
  • noun. A cigarette.
  • noun. The worst part or end of a thing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
  • verb. act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
  • noun. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
  • verb. work hard
  • noun. offensive term for an openly homosexual man