[syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue]
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]
[PJC]
3. A fag end in a cloth.
[PJC]
4. A drudge.
[PJC]
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.
[PJC]
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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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fag
n 1: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen,
queer, poof, poove, pouf]
2: finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn:
cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag]
v 1: act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
2: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour,
toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
3: exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or
stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire,
wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out,
outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant:
freshen, refresh, refreshen]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "fag":
auntie, beast of burden, beat, bi-guy, bisexual, bugger, bull dyke,
burden, burn out, busy, butch, butt, carton of cigarettes,
catamite, chicken, cig, cigarette, cigarette butt, cigarette case,
debilitate, deck of cigarettes, dig, dirty work, do in, do up,
donkeywork, drive, drudge, drudgery, dyke, employment, enervate,
exhaust, fag out, faggot, fairy, fatigue, femme, flag, flit,
frazzle, fricatrice, fruit, galley slave, greasy grind, grind,
grub, gunsel, hack, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork,
harass, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, industry,
invert, jade, keep busy, knock out, knock up, labor, lesbian, lick,
lick of work, manual labor, moil, nance, oppress, outwear,
overdrive, overfatigue, overstrain, overtask, overtax, overtire,
overweary, overwork, pansy, pathic, peg, peg away, plod, plodder,
plug, plug along, plug away, poop, poop out, pound away, prostrate,
punk, queen, queer, rat race, sapphist, scut work, slave, slavery,
slog, slogger, smoke, snipe, spadework, stroke, stroke of work,
stub, sweat, swot, task, tax, tire, tire out, tire to death,
tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, tribade, tucker, use up,
wade through, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary,
wilt, wind, work, work away, workhorse
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
FAG
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