verb (used with object), fagged, fag·ging.
- to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often followed by out): The long climb fagged us out.
- British. to require (a younger public-school pupil) to do menial chores.
- Nautical. to fray or unlay the end of (a rope).
verb (used without object), fagged, fag·ging.
- Chiefly British. to work until wearied; work hard: to fag away at French.
- British Informal. to do menial chores for an older public-school pupil.
noun
- Slang. a cigarette.
- a fag end, as of cloth.
- a rough or defective spot in a woven fabric; blemish; flaw.
- Chiefly British. drudgery; toil.
- British Informal. a younger pupil in a British public school required to perform certain menial tasks for, and submit to the hazing of, an older pupil.
- a drudge.
noun Slang.
- Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.
- Offensive. a contemptible or dislikable person.
noun
- informal a boring or wearisome taskit’s a fag having to walk all that way
- British (esp formerly) a young public school boy who performs menial chores for an older boy or prefect
verb fags, fagging or fagged
- (when tr, often foll by out) informal to become or cause to become exhausted by hard toil or work
- (usually intr) British to do or cause to do menial chores in a public schoolBrown fags for Lee
noun
- British a slang word for cigarette
- a fag end, as of cloth
noun
- slang, mainly US and Canadian short for faggot 2
“to droop, decline, tire,” 1520s, apparently an alteration of flag (v.) in its sense of “droop.” Transitive sense of “to make (someone or something) fatigued” is first attested 1826. Related: Fagged; fagging.
British slang for “cigarette” (originally, especially, the butt of a smoked cigarette), 1888, probably from fag-end “extreme end, loose piece” (1610s), from fag “loose piece” (late 15c.), which is perhaps related to fag (v.).