fag

Meanings

Noun

• In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
• A cigarette.
• The worst part or end of a thing.
• A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
• A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
• A homosexual man, especially an especially effeminate or unusual one.
• An annoying person.

Verb

• To make exhausted, tired out.
• To droop; to tire.
• For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
• To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
• To work hard, especially on menial chores.

Related

Similar words

• ciggy , smoke, oily rag

Origin

• Probably from fag end, from Middle English fagge ("flap").
• Akin to flag. Compare Dutch vaak ("sleepiness").
• From faggot.