fag

fadz (plural)
fagu (alternative)
fau (alternative)


fag

bay (the distance between two vertical or horizontal supports in roofs and walls)

head

fag n (singular definite faget, plural indefinite fag)

faget (definite singular)
fag (indefinite plural)
fag (indefinite nominative singular)
faget (definite nominative singular)
fag (indefinite nominative plural)
fagene (definite nominative plural)
fags (genitive indefinite singular)
fagets (definite genitive singular)
fags (genitive indefinite plural)
fagenes (definite genitive plural)

From German Fach (“compartment, drawer, subject”), from Old High German fah (“wall”).


fag

(US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.

He′d Phase Out Fag Industry
Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.

Oh, rent a flat above a shop / And cut your hair and get a job / And smoke some fags and play some pool / Pretend you never went to school

1995, Pulp, “Common People”, in Different Class:

All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their wet fag ends into the fire.

2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf, section 15:

So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag. Then after a while they were asking me. They′d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a fag?’ And then I got better and I′d finish the sheep and they′d say ‘Christ, I haven′t finished me bloody fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’

2011, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories, unnumbered page:

Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.

1788, William Perry, editor, The Royal standard English dictionary:

(UK, Ireland, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.

Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”).


fag

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.

1853, Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record: or Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from Creation to A.D. 1854, page 188:

(UK, Ireland, colloquial, now rare) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.

I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.

1791, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, volume 4, page 67:

“He was my fag at Eton,” Warrington said. “I ought to have licked him a little more.”

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

A gang of fags was mobbing about by the notice-boards. They fell silent as he approached. He patted one of them on the head. ‘Pretty children,’ he sighed, digging into his waistcoat pocket and pulling out a handful of change. ‘Tonight you shall eat.’ Scattering the coins at their feet, he moved on.

(UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.

Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).


fag

(transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form, now rare) To make exhausted, tired out.

a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, "Fag", entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12,
Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground.

(intransitive, colloquial, now rare) To droop; to tire.

(intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.

It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers.

1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63:

(transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.

This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.

1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 1, in Jane Eyre, HTML edition:

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.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

(intransitive, UK, Ireland, now rare) To work hard, especially on menial chores.

en-verb

fag (third-person singular simple present fags, present participle fagging, simple past and past participle fagged)

fags (present singular third-person)
fagging (participle present)
fagged (participle past)
fagged (past)


fag

1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.
Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”

In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag," " fruit," etc.). ...

1926, American Neurological Association with New York Neurological Association et al., Journal of nervous and mental disease, volume 94, page 467:

When they pick out a set of clubs for him to rent, he is so indifferent and silent the freckled kid in charge stares at him as if he's a moron. The thought flits through his brain that Eccles is known as a fag and he has become the new pet.

1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 111:

A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag.

2006, Lynn Mickelsen, Confusion Turned to Chaos:

... what appeared to be overt appeals to anti-gay sentiment. When House Majority Whip Dick Armey referred to fellow Congressman Barney Frank as "Barney Fag" in 1995, he suffered a barage of negative publicity that prompted him to explain his choice of words as a slip of the tongue.

2008, Paul Ryan Brewer, Value war: public opinion and the politics of gay rights, →ISBN, page 60:

(chiefly US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.

Why did you do that, you fag?

(US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.

死基佬 (sei² gei¹ lou², literally “damn homosexual”)


fag

is-noun

fag n (genitive singular fags, nominative plural fög)

fags (genitive singular)
fög (nominative plural)
fag (indefinite nominative singular)
fagið (definite nominative singular)
fög (indefinite nominative plural)
fögin (definite nominative plural)
fag (accusative indefinite singular)
fagið (accusative definite singular)
fög (accusative indefinite plural)
fögin (accusative definite plural)
fagi (dative indefinite singular)
faginu (dative definite singular)
fögum (dative indefinite plural)
fögunum (dative definite plural)
fags (genitive indefinite singular)
fagsins (definite genitive singular)
faga (genitive indefinite plural)
faganna (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Danish fag, itself a borrowing from German Fach.


fag

Bot wa unu nuo buot tumaro? Unu no iivn nuo ou unu laif a-go go tumaro. Unu laif komiin jos laik fag. Di fag kom dong fi likl bit, an den az di son kom out so, di fag jos disapier.

2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jiemz 4:14:

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. Your life is like a fog that comes in for a little while, then when the sun comes out the fog vanishes away.


fag

faget (definite singular)
fag (indefinite plural)
faga (definite plural)
fagene (definite plural)

From Middle Low German or German Low German fak; compare with German Fach.


fag

faget (definite singular)
fag (indefinite plural)
faga (definite plural)


fag

phage, bacteriophage (virus that infects bacteria)

fag (nominative singular)
fagi (nominative plural)
faga (genitive singular)
fagów (genitive plural)
fagowi (dative singular)
fagom (dative plural)
faga (accusative singular)
fagi (accusative plural)
fagiem (instrumental singular)
fagami (instrumental plural)
fagu (locative singular)
fagach (locative plural)
fagu (singular vocative)
fagi (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos).


fag

fagi (plural)
fag (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
fagul (accusative definite nominative singular)
fagi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
fagii (accusative definite nominative plural)
fag (indefinite singular)
fagului (definite singular)
fagi (indefinite singular)
fagilor (definite plural)
fagule (singular vocative)
fagilor (vocative)

Inherited from Latin fāgus, from Proto-Italic *fāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech tree”).


fag

Inherited from Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).