Fag

[fæg] or [fæɡ]

Definition

(verb.) act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools.

Checked by Dora--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.

(v. i.) To become weary; to tire.

(v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.

(v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.

(v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.

(v. t.) Anything that fatigues.

Checker: Nicole

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Droop, sink, flag, grow weary, become fatigued, be tired.[2]. Drudge, toil (in menial service).

v. a. [1]. Beat, thump.[2]. Compel to drudge.

n. [Especially applied in England to a school-boy who does menial service for another.] Drudge, menial, slave.

Edited by Fred

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Work, toil, slave, drudge

ANT:Bask, idle, lounge, dawdle, strike

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Definition

v.i. to become weary or tired out: to work hard: to be a fag.—v.t. to weary: to use as a fag:—pr.p. fag′ging; pa.p. fagged.—n. at Eton Winchester &c. a schoolboy forced to do menial offices for one older who in turn protects him: a tiresome piece of work: drudgery.—ns. Fag′gery drudgery: fagging; Fag′ging laborious drudgery: a usage in virtue of which senior boys are authorised to exact a variety of services from the junior boys.—To fag out to field as a fag in cricket.

Editor: Luke