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单词 fag
释义 fag
fag1
 /fag/,  v.  , fagged, fagging,  n.  
  v.t.  
  1. to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out.
  2.  Brit.   to require (a younger public-school pupil) to do menial chores.
  3.  Naut.   to fray or unlay the end of (a rope).
  v.i.  
  4.  Chiefly Brit.   to work until wearied; work hard: to fag away at French.
  5.  Brit. Informal.   to do menial chores for an older public-school pupil.
  n.  
  6.  Slang.   a cigarette.
  7. a fag end, as of cloth.
  8. a rough or defective spot in a woven fabric; blemish; flaw.
  9.  Chiefly Brit.   drudgery; toil.
  10.  Brit. Informal.   a younger pupil in a British public school required to perform certain menial tasks for, and submit to the hazing of, an older pupil.
  11. a drudge.
 [1425-75; late ME fagge broken thread in cloth, loose end (of obscure orig.); sense development appar.: drooping end > to droop, tire > to make weary > drudgery, drudge (cf. relationship of FLAG1 to FLAG3); (def. 6) a shortening of FAG END (a butt, hence a cigarette)]
fag2
 —faggish,  adj.  
 /fag/
  n.   Slang (disparaging and offensive). faggot2.
 [1920-25, Amer.; by shortening]
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