fags

Noun (1)

fag (plural fags)

1. (US) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
2. (Australia, Ireland, UK, colloquial) A cigarette.
   • ‘What about a fag, boys?’1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 160

   Synonyms:

   bine, blem, bogie, boagie, butt, cancerette, cancer stick, boon, cig, ciggy

3. (Ireland, UK, colloquial, obsolete) The worst part or end of a thing.
   • Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.1788, William Perry, editor, The Royal standard English dictionary

Noun (2)

fag (plural fags)

1. (Ireland, UK, archaic, colloquial) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
   • We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death.1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
2. (Ireland, UK, colloquial, historical) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
   • I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.1791, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, volume 4, page 67

Noun (3)

fag (plural fags)

1. (Canada, US, endearing, offensive, sometimes, usually) A homosexual man.
   • [1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.
     Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”]

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