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• Fag (disambiguation) — The term fag derives from the word flag , which is a variant of the Middle English word flacken (to flutter).Fag has several meanings: * fag (fag end) A collection of sticks, loose cloth or miscellaneous meat cuts.* fag (personal servant) An… …   Wikipedia

• fag — English has three distinct words fag, none of whose origins is altogether clear. The oldest is the one which denotes ‘drudgery’. It is first recorded as a verb in the 16th century, meaning ‘droop, decline’; its more common noun uses, ‘hard boring …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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• fag — I [[t]fæg[/t]] n. v. fagged, fag•ging 1) sts Slang. a cigarette 2) brit. Chiefly Brit. drudgery; toil 3) brit. a younger pupil in a British public school required to perform certain menial tasks for an older pupil 4) a drudge 5) to tire or weary… …   From formal English to slang

• fag — n 1. British a cigarette. In Middle English fagge meant, as a verb, to droop or, as a noun, a flap or remnant. These notions gave rise to fag end and subsequently, in the 19th century, to fag as a stubbed out or limp, low quality cigarette. In… …   Contemporary slang

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