I. ˈfag, -aa(ə)g, -aig noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English fagge flap, knot in cloth
1. : fag end
2. : cigarette ; sometimes : a cheap cigarette
II. verb
( fagged ; fagged ; fagging ; fags )
Etymology: obsolete English fag to droop, perhaps from fag (I)
intransitive verb
1. : to become weary : tire , flag
2. : to work to exhaustion : drudge , toil
fagging away at all the extra work
3.
a. : to be a fag : serve as a fag
fagging for older boys during his first year
b. : to serve as a fag in the field in British school games (as cricket)
transitive verb
1. : to compel to serve as a fag
what right have the fifth-form boys to fag us — Thomas Hughes
2. : to exhaust by toil, drudgery, or sustained heavy activity — often used with out
the long march fagged them out
3. : to make (the end of a rope) frayed or untwisted
Synonyms: see tire
III. noun
( -s )
1. chiefly Britain : a fatiguing task : drudgery
it is such a fag ; I came back tired to death — Jane Austen
2.
a. : an English public-school boy who acts as servant to another boy in a higher form
b. : menial , drudge , servitor
IV. noun
or fag·got ˈfagət
( -s )
Etymology: origin unknown
slang : homosexual