fag
noun/fæɡ/
/fæɡ/
- [countable] (British English, informal) a cigarette
- (also faggot)[countable] (North American English, taboo, offensive, slang) an offensive word for a gay man
- [singular] (British English, informal) something that is boring to do and makes you tired
- It's too much of a fag to go out.
- Travelling all that way to work every day is a real fag.
- [countable] (British English) (especially in the past) a boy at a public school who has to do jobs for an older boy
Word Originsenses 3 to 4 mid 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘grow weary’): of unknown origin. Compare with flag in the verb sense ‘to become tired’.sense 2 1920s: short for faggot ‘homosexual’.sense 1 late 19th cent.: elliptically from fag end.
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