单词 | fagger |
释义 | faggern. Now historical and rare. 1. Esp. in certain British independent boarding schools for boys: a senior pupil for whom a junior pupil acts as fag (fag n.3 1b); a fagmaster. Cf. fag v.1 4a. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > schoolboy > one who has fag fagger1818 fagmaster1818 master1833 1818 L. Hunt Examiner 24 May 1/2 A fagger is always striking a boy when he is down. 1847 Daily News 19 Aug. 1/6 Boys..cannot develop themselves freely amid the harsh artificial relations of the fagger and the fagged. 1885 Academy 6 June 393/3 It would be of some interest to ascertain his fagger's name. 1917 V. S. Bryant Public School Syst. v. 64 The ‘fagging’ system is perfectly controlled at the present time, and both the ‘fagger’ and the ‘fagged’ obtain great benefits from it. 1970 Hist. Today Dec. 849/2 A fag who burnt his fagger's snack would himself be ‘toasted’ with his back bared to a roaring fire. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > one who workhorse1463 toiler1549 fagger1830 strapper1851 workhorse1908 1830 New Monthly Mag. 28 282 Three or four whose hands are already full of foreign matters, and a few faggers of all work. 1851 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 21 June The benches are occupied only by the faggers who remain to wind up the ministerial work. 1881 Eclectic Mag. Apr. 520/1 He was at first afraid of working hard lest he should lose caste as a fagger. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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