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fagging

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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.]


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Two months had gone by,--two months of steady, fagging work; of cooking, washing, ironing; of mending and caring for the three children, although Jenny was fast becoming a notable little housewife, quick, ready, and capable.
And there's the island in the farthest corner; you'll know that well enough next half, when there's island fagging.
At Eton his hatred of tyranny was fiercely aroused by the fagging system and the other brutalities of an English school; he broke into open revolt and became known as 'mad Shelley,' and his schoolfellows delighted in driving him into paroxysms of rage.
 
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