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fag¹
- /fæɡ/ US, UK
- /faɡ/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /fæːɡ/ Australia
- /fɛɡ/ New Zealand
- /ˈfeɪɡ/
- [ˈfeɪ̯ɡ]
Rhymes with -æɡ
Where it comes from
Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”).
noun fags
- In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
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A cigarette.
‘What about a fag, boys?’
Similar: bine, blem, bogie, boagie, butt, cancerette, cancer stick, boon, cig, ciggy, coffin nail, cowboy killer
- The worst part or end of a thing. Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.
fag²
- /fæɡ/ US, UK
- /faɡ/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /fæːɡ/ Australia
- /fɛɡ/ New Zealand
- /ˈfeɪɡ/
- [ˈfeɪ̯ɡ]
Rhymes with -æɡ
Where it comes from
Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).
noun fags
- A 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.
- A 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.
verb fags · fagging · fagged
- To make exhausted, tired out.
- To 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.
- (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. To be the servant in fagging.
- To 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.
- To 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.
fag³
- /fæɡ/ US, UK
- /faɡ/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /fæːɡ/ Australia
- /fɛɡ/ New Zealand
- /ˈfeɪɡ/
- [ˈfeɪ̯ɡ]
Rhymes with -æɡ
noun fags
- A 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.”]
- a homosexual person of any gender.
- a queer person in general.
- An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
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An annoying or contemptible person.
Why did you do that, you fag?
Similar: assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot, assfuck, assfucker, asshat, asshead
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: pouf, wear, pikey, faggot, closet, grind, dig, pedal, smoke, smoking, cigarette, bender, cig, coffin nail, bashing, drunk
Translations
Every language
noun homosexual man
| Español | puto, joto, maricón, marico, pato, bujarra |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 호모 homo, 장작뭇 jangjangmut, 장작뭇단 jangjangmutdan |
| 日本語 | ホモ野郎 homo yarō, ホモ homo, おかま o-kama |
| हिन्दी | गाँडू gāṅḍū |
| Português | paneleiro, viado, boiola, bicha |
| Français | pédé, pédale, tapette, fif |
| Deutsch | Schwuchtel, Schwuler, warmer Bruder, Homo, Tunte |
| Italiano | finocchio, frocio, rottinculo, ricchione, checca |
| Ελληνικά | πούστης poústis, κίναιδος kínaidos, αδερφή aderfí |
| Română | poponar, bulangiu |
| Русский | голубо́й golubój, гомосе́к gomosɛ́k, гомосе́к gomosék, го́мик gómik, пе́дик pédik, пи́дор pídor |
| Tiếng Việt | pê đê, bóng |
| العربية | لُوطِيّ lūṭiyy, مِثْلِيُّ ٱلْجِنْس miṯliyyu l-jins, زامل, مُخَنَّث muḵannaṯ, سِحَاقِيَّة siḥāqiyya |
| עברית | הומו homo, מִתְרוֹמֵם mitromém, אוכל בתחת ókhel batakhát |
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