fag Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun offensive term for an openly homosexual man
    poove; fairy; nance; queen; fagot; pansy; poof; queer; pouf; faggot.
  2. noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
    cigarette; coffin nail; cigaret; butt.
  3. verb act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
  4. verb work hard
    moil; travail; dig; grind; labour; drudge; toil; labor.
    • She was digging away at her math homework
    • Lexicographers drudge all day long
  5. verb exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
    wear out; tire; wear down; jade; fag out; weary; fatigue; wear; tire out; outwear; wear upon.
    • We wore ourselves out on this hike

WordNet

Fag noun
Definitions
  1. A knot or coarse part in cloth. Obs.
Fag intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to fach devoted to death, OS. fgi, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. fge, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fagged ; present participle & verbal noun Fagging
Definitions
  1. To become weary; to tire.
    Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.
  2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
    Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.
  3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
Fag transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
  2. Anything that fatigues. R.
    It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen.

Webster 1913