"fag" Definition

Definitions for the word "fag" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A knot or coarse part in cloth.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To become weary; to tire.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
Anything that fatigues.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 colloq. Tedious task. 2 slang cigarette. 3 (at public schools) junior boy who runs errands for a senior. v. (-gg-) 1 (often foll. By out) colloq. Exhaust. 2 (at public schools) act as a fag. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
8. n.
Us slang offens. Male homosexual. [abbreviation of *faggot]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. slang
a schoolboy who performs a servant’s offices to a superior schoolmate. From FAG, to become weary or tired out. _Low German_, FAKK, wearied.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
10. slang
to beat.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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