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FAGGING
FAG
tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue
(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; “We wore ourselves out on this hike”
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(verb) work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”
fag
(verb) act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
fagging
present participle of fag
Noun
fagging (countable and uncountable, plural faggings)
(UK, historical, education) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.
Source: Wiktionary
Fag"ging, n.
Definition: Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.
FAG
Fag n.
Definition: A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]
Fag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging.] Etym: [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to fach devoted to death, OS. f, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.]
1. To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.
2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.
3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
Fag, v. t.
1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
2. Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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