fagnoun詞源 1/fæɡ/

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  engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesIn textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.

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  A cigarette.

  • ‘What about a fag, boys?’
  • 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.
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  obsoleteThe worst part or end of a thing.

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

fagnoun詞源 2/fæɡ/

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  archaicA chore: an arduous and tiresome task.

  • We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death.
  • 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.
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  historicaleducationA 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.”

fagverb詞源 2/fæɡ/

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  archaicTo make exhausted, tired out.

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

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  historicaleducationTo 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.
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  archaicTo work hard, especially on menial chores.

  • This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.
  • 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.

fagnoun詞源 3/fæɡ/

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  vulgaroffensiveA 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.). ...
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  vulgaroffensivederogatoryslangAn effeminate or unusual homosexual man.

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  vulgaroffensivederogatoryAn annoying or contemptible person.

  • Why did you do that, you fag?