fag

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

2. (UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.Examples: "I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it."; "“He was my fag at Eton,” Warrington said. “I ought to have licked him a little more.”"; "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."IrelandUKcolloquialhistorical

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

2. (intransitive, colloquial, now rare) To droop; to tire.Examples: "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."archaiccolloquialintransitive

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

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

5. (intransitive, UK, Ireland, now rare) To work hard, especially on menial chores.Examples: "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."; "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."IrelandUKarchaicintransitive

1. (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.Examples: "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.). ..."; "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."Synonyms: homosexual personCanadaUSendearingoffensivesometimesusuallyvulgar

2. (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.Examples: "Why did you do that, you fag?"Synonyms: jerkUSderogatoryoffensivevulgar