See -fag on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for -fag meaning in All languages combined (8.8kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fag",
"3": "",
"4": "homosexual man, annoying person, etc."
},
"expansion": "fag (“homosexual man, annoying person, etc.”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-man"
},
"expansion": "-man",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c",
"2": "early 2000s"
},
"expansion": "First attested in c. early 2000s.",
"name": "etydate"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bugger"
},
"expansion": "bugger",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cunt"
},
"expansion": "cunt",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From fag (“homosexual man, annoying person, etc.”); compare -man. Popularized on the 4chan online community. First attested in c. early 2000s.\nFor similar semantic drift in slang from derogatory to neutral, ironic or affectionate, compare some senses of bugger, cunt, etc.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "suffix",
"cat2": "productive suffixes",
"cat3": "",
"head": "",
"id": ""
},
"expansion": "-fag",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"cat2": "productive suffixes"
},
"expansion": "-fag",
"name": "en-suffix"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 May 18, Askren [username], “Re: Is Cos and RTC violating U.S. tax law?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)",
"text": "I'll forward this to a few lawfags and see what he deal is.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 July 11, Onideus Mad Hatter [username], “BTW Lego Newfag”, in rec.toys.lego (Usenet)",
"text": "Oh, also, using Outhouse Express...yeah, really shows off what a Usenet newfag you are, just a lil FYI for ya. You might wanna try XNews or Agent or any *REAL* news browser (not a mail client with some sloppily added extras).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009 June 18, Onslaught Six [username], “Re: I really didn't study for this test”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet)",
"text": "The pathetic Usenet oldfags will cling to their pathetic, outdated and boring medium as the new-world forumites rule the Interwebs universe.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A suffix combined with an adjective or noun to form a word for a specific type of person, often with a derogatory or irreverent connotation; often further used ironically and/or affectionately."
],
"id": "en--fag-en-suffix-atStGtri",
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"suffix",
"suffix#English"
],
[
"adjective",
"adjective#English"
],
[
"noun",
"noun#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang, originally 4chan, offensive, derogatory) A suffix combined with an adjective or noun to form a word for a specific type of person, often with a derogatory or irreverent connotation; often further used ironically and/or affectionately."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"derogatory",
"morpheme",
"offensive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "lan²",
"sense": "suffix",
"word": "撚"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"4chan",
"semantic drift"
]
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "la",
"3": "-phagus",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Latin -phagus",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "la",
"3": "-phagus"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin -phagus",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "grc",
"3": "φάγος",
"4": "",
"5": "glutton"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "φαγεῖν",
"3": "",
"4": "to eat"
},
"expansion": "φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin -phagus, from Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”), from φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-fags",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "-fag m (noun-forming suffix, plural -fags)",
"name": "ca-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"-phage"
],
"id": "en--fag-ca-suffix-fzOB7RBN",
"links": [
[
"-phage",
"-phage"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "la",
"3": "-phagus",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Latin -phagus",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "la",
"3": "-phagus"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin -phagus",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "grc",
"3": "φάγος",
"4": "",
"5": "glutton"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "φαγεῖν",
"3": "",
"4": "to eat"
},
"expansion": "φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin -phagus, from Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”), from φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-faga",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "-fags",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagues",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "-fag (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -faga, masculine plural -fags, feminine plural -fagues)",
"name": "ca-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"-phagous"
],
"id": "en--fag-ca-suffix-sqILHWlS",
"links": [
[
"-phagous",
"-phagous"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "-fagia"
}
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "grc",
"3": "-φάγος"
},
"expansion": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek -φάγος (-phágos)",
"name": "lbor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "bóg"
},
"expansion": "bóg",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek -φάγος (-phágos). Related to bóg.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "-fag",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-faga",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagów",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagowi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-faga",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagiem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "suffix",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "-fag m",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"fag"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml"
}
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant alt parameters",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant wikilinks",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "bakteria + -fag → bakteriofag",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"-phage"
],
"id": "en--fag-pl-suffix-fzOB7RBN",
"links": [
[
"-phage",
"-phage#English"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "-fagia"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fak/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ak"
},
{
"homophone": "fag"
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
{
"categories": [
"Catalan adjective-forming suffixes",
"Catalan countable suffixes",
"Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
"Catalan lemmas",
"Catalan masculine suffixes",
"Catalan noun-forming suffixes",
"Catalan suffixes",
"Catalan suffixes with red links in their headword lines",
"Catalan terms borrowed from Latin",
"Catalan terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Catalan terms derived from Latin"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "la",
"3": "-phagus",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Latin -phagus",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "la",
"3": "-phagus"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin -phagus",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "grc",
"3": "φάγος",
"4": "",
"5": "glutton"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "φαγεῖν",
"3": "",
"4": "to eat"
},
"expansion": "φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin -phagus, from Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”), from φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-fags",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "-fag m (noun-forming suffix, plural -fags)",
"name": "ca-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"-phage"
],
"links": [
[
"-phage",
"-phage"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
{
"categories": [
"Catalan adjective-forming suffixes",
"Catalan countable suffixes",
"Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
"Catalan lemmas",
"Catalan masculine suffixes",
"Catalan noun-forming suffixes",
"Catalan suffixes",
"Catalan suffixes with red links in their headword lines",
"Catalan terms borrowed from Latin",
"Catalan terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Catalan terms derived from Latin"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "la",
"3": "-phagus",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Latin -phagus",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "la",
"3": "-phagus"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin -phagus",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "grc",
"3": "φάγος",
"4": "",
"5": "glutton"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "φαγεῖν",
"3": "",
"4": "to eat"
},
"expansion": "φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin -phagus, from Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”), from φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-faga",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "-fags",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagues",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "-fag (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -faga, masculine plural -fags, feminine plural -fagues)",
"name": "ca-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"pos": "suffix",
"related": [
{
"word": "-fagia"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"-phagous"
],
"links": [
[
"-phagous",
"-phagous"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fag",
"3": "",
"4": "homosexual man, annoying person, etc."
},
"expansion": "fag (“homosexual man, annoying person, etc.”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-man"
},
"expansion": "-man",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c",
"2": "early 2000s"
},
"expansion": "First attested in c. early 2000s.",
"name": "etydate"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bugger"
},
"expansion": "bugger",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cunt"
},
"expansion": "cunt",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From fag (“homosexual man, annoying person, etc.”); compare -man. Popularized on the 4chan online community. First attested in c. early 2000s.\nFor similar semantic drift in slang from derogatory to neutral, ironic or affectionate, compare some senses of bugger, cunt, etc.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "suffix",
"cat2": "productive suffixes",
"cat3": "",
"head": "",
"id": ""
},
"expansion": "-fag",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"cat2": "productive suffixes"
},
"expansion": "-fag",
"name": "en-suffix"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English 4chan slang",
"English derogatory terms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English internet slang",
"English lemmas",
"English noun-forming suffixes",
"English offensive terms",
"English productive suffixes",
"English suffixes",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 May 18, Askren [username], “Re: Is Cos and RTC violating U.S. tax law?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)",
"text": "I'll forward this to a few lawfags and see what he deal is.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 July 11, Onideus Mad Hatter [username], “BTW Lego Newfag”, in rec.toys.lego (Usenet)",
"text": "Oh, also, using Outhouse Express...yeah, really shows off what a Usenet newfag you are, just a lil FYI for ya. You might wanna try XNews or Agent or any *REAL* news browser (not a mail client with some sloppily added extras).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009 June 18, Onslaught Six [username], “Re: I really didn't study for this test”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet)",
"text": "The pathetic Usenet oldfags will cling to their pathetic, outdated and boring medium as the new-world forumites rule the Interwebs universe.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A suffix combined with an adjective or noun to form a word for a specific type of person, often with a derogatory or irreverent connotation; often further used ironically and/or affectionately."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"suffix",
"suffix#English"
],
[
"adjective",
"adjective#English"
],
[
"noun",
"noun#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang, originally 4chan, offensive, derogatory) A suffix combined with an adjective or noun to form a word for a specific type of person, often with a derogatory or irreverent connotation; often further used ironically and/or affectionately."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"derogatory",
"morpheme",
"offensive"
],
"wikipedia": [
"4chan",
"semantic drift"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "lan²",
"sense": "suffix",
"word": "撚"
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "grc",
"3": "-φάγος"
},
"expansion": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek -φάγος (-phágos)",
"name": "lbor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "bóg"
},
"expansion": "bóg",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek -φάγος (-phágos). Related to bóg.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "-fag",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-faga",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagów",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagowi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-faga",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagiem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "-fagi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "suffix",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "-fag m",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"fag"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml"
}
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "suffix",
"related": [
{
"word": "-fagia"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Polish 1-syllable words",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish learned borrowings from Ancient Greek",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Polish masculine suffixes",
"Polish suffixes",
"Polish terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio links",
"Polish terms with homophones",
"Rhymes:Polish/ak",
"Rhymes:Polish/ak/1 syllable"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "bakteria + -fag → bakteriofag",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"-phage"
],
"links": [
[
"-phage",
"-phage#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fak/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ak"
},
{
"homophone": "fag"
}
],
"word": "-fag"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.