fag

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. US
  2. A chore: an arduous and tiresome task. Ireland,UK,archaic,colloquial
    — 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.
  3. A homosexual man. Canada,US,endearing,offensive,sometimes
    — [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.”]
  4. A cigarette. Ireland,UK,colloquial
    — 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.
  5. A younger student acting as a servant for senior students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way). Ireland,UK,colloquial,historical
    — I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.
  6. An effeminate or unusual homosexual man. derogatory,offensive,slang,usually
  7. The worst part or end of a thing. Ireland,UK,colloquial,obsolete
    — Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.
  8. An annoying or contemptible person. US,derogatory,offensive,vulgar
    — Why did you do that, you fag?
动词 v.
  1. To make exhausted, tired out. archaic,colloquial,transitive
  2. To droop; to tire. archaic,colloquial,intransitive
    — 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.
  3. (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. To be the servant in fagging. Ireland,UK,colloquial,historical,intransitive
  4. To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way, in fagging. Ireland,UK,colloquial,historical,transitive
    — 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.
  5. To work hard, especially on menial chores. Ireland,UK,archaic,intransitive
    — 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.

词形变化

fags plural fags plural fags present,singular,third-person fagging participle,present fagged participle,past fagged past fags plural

词源

词源 1
Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”).
词源 2
Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).
词源 3
Clipping of faggot.
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