fag endn.

Brit.

/ˌfaɡ ˈɛnd/,

/ˈfaɡ ɛnd/, U.S.

/ˌfæɡ ˈɛnd/,

/ˈfæɡ ˌɛnd/

Forms: 1600s–1700s fagg end, 1600s fagge end, 1600s– fag end.

Etymology: < fag n.² + end n.In later use in sense 1b probably apprehended as formed < fag n.⁴ + end n.

colloquial.

a. The last part or remnant of something, esp. that remaining after the best part has been used; (figurative) the most worthless part, the dregs. Also: the very end (of something, esp. a period of time); the far end (of a place). Cf. fag n.² 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part > mere

butt end1597

fag endc1600

faga1627

tag-end1807

rag enda1869

c1600 Timon (1980) i. iii. 10 I am not of the raggs Or fagg end of the people.

1650 Bp. J. Hall Revelation Unrevealed i. 16 The fag-end of this last Century.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 5 This wind was the fag-end of a Hurricane.

1729 G. Berkeley in Wks. (1871) IV. 640 The first fruits..to the devil, the fag-end, when faculty for good and evil is gone, to God.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxxv. 155 To be wove into the fag end of the eighth volume.

1830 New-Eng. Galaxy 5 Nov. Joe..was quietly smoking the fag end of a cigar.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. viii. 241 Vegetating at the fag-end of England.

1938 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 12 Feb. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 70 We got down to the fag end of the bacon.

2015 Prospect Aug. 6/3 A mature student at the fag-end of his thirties.

b. Chiefly British. The butt of a smoked cigarette or cigar. Cf. fag n.⁴ 2.Cf. quot. 1830 at sense 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of

doup1710

butt end1827

old soldier1834

butt1847

stub1855

cigar-end1870

stub-end1875

cigarette-end1889

cigar-butt1891

snipe1891

fag end1892

fag1897

bumper1899

scag1915

cigarette-butt1923

dout1928

dog-end1934

roach1939

stompie1947

1892 Western Mail (Cardiff) 13 Sept. 8/8 Brockway said he was sitting down, smoking a cigarette, and threw away the ‘fag end’ on the hay.

1933 W. Greenwood Love on Dole ii. i. 102 He was..lounging at the street corner with the rest of the dole birds feeling in his pocket for a fag-end that wasn't there.

1960 J. R. Ackerley We think World of You 22 I 'ad a dog once what ate up all the fag-ends in the street.

2005 N. Brooks My Name is Denise Forrester 194 The..man stood up, draining his Tennents and dropping his fag end into the empty.

†a. The last part of a piece of cloth; the end of a roll or bale of cloth, often woven more coarsely or of lower quality material than the rest, and sometimes hanging loose. Later also more generally: a piece of worn cloth, a rag. Cf. fag n.² 2a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > other pieces

piece?c1430

fasel1440

speckc1440

pane1459

rag?1536

remnant1571

fag end1607

swatch1647

cut1753

rigg1769

hag's teeth1777

bias1824

spetch1828

shredlet1840

bias tape1884

short end1960

1607 G. Bury Narrow Way 53 Mercers and Drapers..neuer shew vnto their chapmen the middle part & fag end of their wares,..but onely the vpper part thereof which commonly is very good.

1660 S. Kem King Solomon's Infallible Expedient 9 The list or fag-end may patch, but never can make a beautiful Garment.

1733 S. Madden Mem. 20th Cent. 256 The fag end of a Cloth, which serves only to wrap up the rest of the piece, and preserve it from the dirt.

1744 Proc. King's Comm. Peace 1743–4 (City of London & County of Middlesex) No. 2. 54/1 There was a little remnant of a coarse piece of Irish linen, and..I apprehended it to be the fag end.

1789 New Asiatic Misc. 1 250 The fag end is necessarily put into the skirt.

1862 Glasgow Herald 17 Oct. 8/2 (advt.) The stock in Rag Store consists of..Fag Ends, Cotton, Rope Ends.

1889 V. Ball tr. J.-B. Tavernier Trav. India II. xiii. 29 Upon the fag end of the pieces of cloth the Indians print with a seal and gold leaf an Arabesque flower.

1904 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Fabrics 14 A slide with a pivoted bar or ‘roller’ for tentering the fag end of the fabric.

1917 F. Wray tr. H. Barbusse Under Fire ii. 13 Marthereau's puttees..are not both of the same hue, for he failed to find two fag-ends of greatcoat equally worn and equally dirty, to be cut up into strips.

b. Chiefly Nautical. The end of a piece of rope, esp. when untwisted or unravelled. Cf. fag n.² 2b.

ΚΠ

1777 D. Lescallier Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine 27/1 Fag-end of a rope, Le bout d'un cordage.

1837 Flowers of Fiction 307/2 One of the main-royal rovins had parted, and the fag end was sticking out over the cleat.

1898 Chums 25 May 626/3 I looked up, and slash came the fag-end of a rope right in my teeth.

1943 Motor Boating Nov. 31/1 Place the coil so that the front is up, with both fag ends visible on this face.

1995 Admiralty Man. Seamanship iii. 72 Bring the other rope's end up through the bight of the first, over the cross, down between the standing part and fag end.

Derivatives

fag-ˈender n. one of a small number of people remaining in a particular group or set.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains > a survival > person

fag-ender1828

relict1928

1828 Times 20 Sept. Clinging to the old rubbish of the worn-out Cabinet of former days—the fag-enders of a hated party.

1924 J. M. Murry Voy. vii. 121 ‘There are some religious people left.’ ‘I don't think she'd deny that. She was only speaking of people like us—the fag-enders,’ said Doherty.

2009 Express (Nexis) 13 July 60 England had two fag-enders who clung together through 42 final minutes of tense examination at the tremulous end of their second innings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fag end
释义	fag endn. Brit. /ˌfaɡ ˈɛnd/, /ˈfaɡ ɛnd/, U.S. /ˌfæɡ ˈɛnd/, /ˈfæɡ ˌɛnd/ Forms: 1600s–1700s fagg end, 1600s fagge end, 1600s– fag end. Etymology: < fag n.² + end n.In later use in sense 1b probably apprehended as formed < fag n.⁴ + end n. colloquial. 1. a. The last part or remnant of something, esp. that remaining after the best part has been used; (figurative) the most worthless part, the dregs. Also: the very end (of something, esp. a period of time); the far end (of a place). Cf. fag n.² 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part > mere butt end1597 fag endc1600 faga1627 tag-end1807 rag enda1869 c1600 Timon (1980) i. iii. 10 I am not of the raggs Or fagg end of the people. 1650 Bp. J. Hall Revelation Unrevealed i. 16 The fag-end of this last Century. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 5 This wind was the fag-end of a Hurricane. 1729 G. Berkeley in Wks. (1871) IV. 640 The first fruits..to the devil, the fag-end, when faculty for good and evil is gone, to God. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxxv. 155 To be wove into the fag end of the eighth volume. 1830 New-Eng. Galaxy 5 Nov. Joe..was quietly smoking the fag end of a cigar. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. viii. 241 Vegetating at the fag-end of England. 1938 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 12 Feb. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 70 We got down to the fag end of the bacon. 2015 Prospect Aug. 6/3 A mature student at the fag-end of his thirties. b. Chiefly British. The butt of a smoked cigarette or cigar. Cf. fag n.⁴ 2.Cf. quot. 1830 at sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of doup1710 butt end1827 old soldier1834 butt1847 stub1855 cigar-end1870 stub-end1875 cigarette-end1889 cigar-butt1891 snipe1891 fag end1892 fag1897 bumper1899 scag1915 cigarette-butt1923 dout1928 dog-end1934 roach1939 stompie1947 1892 Western Mail (Cardiff) 13 Sept. 8/8 Brockway said he was sitting down, smoking a cigarette, and threw away the ‘fag end’ on the hay. 1933 W. Greenwood Love on Dole ii. i. 102 He was..lounging at the street corner with the rest of the dole birds feeling in his pocket for a fag-end that wasn't there. 1960 J. R. Ackerley We think World of You 22 I 'ad a dog once what ate up all the fag-ends in the street. 2005 N. Brooks My Name is Denise Forrester 194 The..man stood up, draining his Tennents and dropping his fag end into the empty. 2. †a. The last part of a piece of cloth; the end of a roll or bale of cloth, often woven more coarsely or of lower quality material than the rest, and sometimes hanging loose. Later also more generally: a piece of worn cloth, a rag. Cf. fag n.² 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > other pieces piece?c1430 fasel1440 speckc1440 pane1459 rag?1536 remnant1571 fag end1607 swatch1647 cut1753 rigg1769 hag's teeth1777 bias1824 spetch1828 shredlet1840 bias tape1884 short end1960 1607 G. Bury Narrow Way 53 Mercers and Drapers..neuer shew vnto their chapmen the middle part & fag end of their wares,..but onely the vpper part thereof which commonly is very good. 1660 S. Kem King Solomon's Infallible Expedient 9 The list or fag-end may patch, but never can make a beautiful Garment. 1733 S. Madden Mem. 20th Cent. 256 The fag end of a Cloth, which serves only to wrap up the rest of the piece, and preserve it from the dirt. 1744 Proc. King's Comm. Peace 1743–4 (City of London & County of Middlesex) No. 2. 54/1 There was a little remnant of a coarse piece of Irish linen, and..I apprehended it to be the fag end. 1789 New Asiatic Misc. 1 250 The fag end is necessarily put into the skirt. 1862 Glasgow Herald 17 Oct. 8/2 (advt.) The stock in Rag Store consists of..Fag Ends, Cotton, Rope Ends. 1889 V. Ball tr. J.-B. Tavernier Trav. India II. xiii. 29 Upon the fag end of the pieces of cloth the Indians print with a seal and gold leaf an Arabesque flower. 1904 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Fabrics 14 A slide with a pivoted bar or ‘roller’ for tentering the fag end of the fabric. 1917 F. Wray tr. H. Barbusse Under Fire ii. 13 Marthereau's puttees..are not both of the same hue, for he failed to find two fag-ends of greatcoat equally worn and equally dirty, to be cut up into strips. b. Chiefly Nautical. The end of a piece of rope, esp. when untwisted or unravelled. Cf. fag n.² 2b. ΚΠ 1777 D. Lescallier Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine 27/1 Fag-end of a rope, Le bout d'un cordage. 1837 Flowers of Fiction 307/2 One of the main-royal rovins had parted, and the fag end was sticking out over the cleat. 1898 Chums 25 May 626/3 I looked up, and slash came the fag-end of a rope right in my teeth. 1943 Motor Boating Nov. 31/1 Place the coil so that the front is up, with both fag ends visible on this face. 1995 Admiralty Man. Seamanship iii. 72 Bring the other rope's end up through the bight of the first, over the cross, down between the standing part and fag end. Derivatives fag-ˈender n. one of a small number of people remaining in a particular group or set. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains > a survival > person fag-ender1828 relict1928 1828 Times 20 Sept. Clinging to the old rubbish of the worn-out Cabinet of former days—the fag-enders of a hated party. 1924 J. M. Murry Voy. vii. 121 ‘There are some religious people left.’ ‘I don't think she'd deny that. She was only speaking of people like us—the fag-enders,’ said Doherty. 2009 Express (Nexis) 13 July 60 England had two fag-enders who clung together through 42 final minutes of tense examination at the tremulous end of their second innings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1600
随便看	trapditch trapdoor trapdoor nest trapdoor spider trapdoor spiders trapdoors trapdown trapdrum trapdrummer trape trapes trapesed trapeses trapesing trapesings trapezate trapeze trapeze artist trapeze harness trapeze-line trapezed trapezeline trapezes trapezia trapezial