From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fag \Fag\ (f[a^]g) n.
1. A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw. [Obs.]
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2. A cigarette. [slang]
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3. A fag end in a cloth.
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4. A drudge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
fag \fag\ (f[a^]g), n.
A male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and
considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot. [Slang,
disparaging.]
Syn: faggot.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fag \Fag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fagged (f[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Fagging (f[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary,
vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to f[=a]ch
devoted to death, OS. f[=e]gi, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige,
cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f[=ae]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.
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Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began
to fag. --G.
Mackenzie.
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2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
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Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. --Coleridge.
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3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery,
for another, as in some English schools.
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To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a
rope, or the edge of canvas.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fag \Fag\, v. t.
1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged
out.
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2. Anything that fatigues. [R.]
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It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. --Miss
Austen.
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Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.
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