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fagged

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fag 1  (fg)
n.
1.
a. A student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.
b. A drudge.
2. Chiefly British Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.
v. fagged, fag·ging, fags
v.intr.
1. To work to exhaustion; toil.
2. To function as the servant of another student in a British public school.
v.tr.
To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.

[From fag, to droop (obsolete), perhaps from Middle English fagge; see fag end.]

fag 2  (fg)
n. Slang
A cigarette.

[Short for fag end.]

fag 3  (fg)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

[Short for faggot.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.fagged - drained of energy or effectivenessfagged - drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out"
tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
Translations
fagged [fægd] adj (Brit) (fam) (also fagged out) → stanco/a morto/a


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The strain was great enough when I had merely the work in the printing-office; but now I came home from my Blackstone mentally fagged, and I could not take up the authors whom at the bottom of my heart I loved so much better.
I was fagged out, and for the first time in years felt a question as to my ability to cope with an antagonist; but there was naught else for it than to engage my man, and that as quickly and ferociously as lay in me, for my only salvation was to rush him off his feet by the impetuosity of my attack--I could not hope to win a long-drawn-out battle.
Monsieur the Marquis in his travelling carriage (which might have been lighter), conducted by four post-horses and two postilions, fagged up a steep hill.
 
 
 
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