Fag - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Fag :  (noun)
1: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf]
2: finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn: cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt] (verb)
1: act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
2: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
3: exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fatigue] [ant: refresh]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Fag : \Fag\, v. t. 1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.

2. Anything that fatigues. [R.]

It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. --Miss Austen.

Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Fag : \Fag\n. A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Fag : \Fag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging.] [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to f[=a]ch devoted to death, OS. f?gi, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f?ge, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.] 1. To become weary; to tire.

Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. --G. Mackenzie.

2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.

Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. --Coleridge.

3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.

To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Fag :  FernmeldeAnlagenGesetz telecommunication, Germany





Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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