Fāg1, n.
n. One who performs low or menial services for another; a laborious drudge; especially, a school-boy who does menial services for another boy of a higher form or class in English schools. Edgeworth.
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Fag
Fāg2, v. i.
v. i. [Cf. L. Ger. falck, wearied, weary, waak, slumber, drowsiness, O. Fries. fai, equivalent to fāch, devoted to death, O. Sax. fēgi, M. L. Ger. veege, A-S. fæge, dying, weak, timid, O. H. Ger. feigi, N. H. Ger. feig, feige, Icel. feigr; Scot. fail, to fail, stop, lower the price.] 1. To act as a fag; to labor to weariness; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge. 2. To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. Mackenzie.
Făg3, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. FAGGED; p. pr. & vb. n. FAGGING.]
- To use or treat as a fag; to beat; to compel to drudge. [Colloq.] Smart.
- To cause to labor diligently, or like a drudge; to tire by labor; to cause to become exhausted by hard work.
Făg4, n.
n. A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]