FAG (fagged, fagging)

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Irregular inflected forms: fagged    , fagging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fag mean? 

• FAG (noun)
  The noun FAG has 2 senses:

1. offensive term for a homosexual man

2. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

  Familiarity information: FAG used as a noun is rare.

• FAG (verb)
  The verb FAG has 3 senses:

1. act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools

2. work hard

3. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

  Familiarity information: FAG used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Offensive term for a homosexual man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fag; faggot; fagot; fairy; nance; pansy; poof; poove; pouf; queen; queer

Hypernyms ("fag" is a kind of...):

gay; homo; homophile; homosexual (someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex)

Domain usage:

depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

butt; cigaret; cigarette; coffin nail; fag

Hypernyms ("fag" is a kind of...):

roll of tobacco; smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)

Meronyms (parts of "fag"):

cigarette butt (small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fag"):

cubeb; cubeb cigarette (a cigarette containing cubeb)

filter-tipped cigarette (a cigarette with a filter tip)

joint; marijuana cigarette; reefer; spliff; stick (marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking)

• FAG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fag    ... he / she / it fags   
Past simple: fagged   
Past participle: fagged   
-ing form: fagging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "fag" is one way to...):

assist; attend; attend to; serve; wait on (work for or be a servant to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Work hard

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

dig; drudge; fag; grind; labor; labour; moil; toil; travail

Context example:

Lexicographers drudge all day long

Hypernyms (to "fag" is one way to...):

do work; work (be employed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary

Context example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Hypernyms (to "fag" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fag"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Mortally: after all, it's tough work fagging away at a language with no master but a lexicon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His mind was fagged, and her happiness sprung from being the friend with whom it could find repose.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Such kind friends, you know, Miss Woodhouse, one must always find agreeable, though every body seemed rather fagged after the morning's party.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the other hand, a man should be at his very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not wish to do it when fagged by a long journey.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“You look tired and fagged, Fanny. You have been walking too far.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In one way and another, said I, conscious of reddening a little as I thought of the hours and hours I had devoted to fagging about town, and to and fro upon the Norwood Road, I have abundance of time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As we re-entered the carriage, and I sat back feverish and fagged, I remembered what, in the hurry of events, dark and bright, I had wholly forgotten—the letter of my uncle, John Eyre, to Mrs. Reed: his intention to adopt me and make me his legatee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was only Harriet, who seemed not in spirits herself, fagged, and very willing to be silent; and Emma felt the tears running down her cheeks almost all the way home, without being at any trouble to check them, extraordinary as they were.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)