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Webster 1913 Edition


Fag

Fag

(făg)
Noun.
1.
A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw.
[Obs.]

Fag

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fagged
(făgd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Fagging
(făg′gĭng)
.]
[Cf. LG.
fakk
wearied, weary,
vaak
slumber, drowsiness, OFries.
fai
, equiv. to
fāch
devoted to death, OS.
fēgi
, OHG.
feigi
, G.
feig
,
feige
, cowardly, Icel.
feigr
fated to die, AS.
fǣge
, Scot.
faik
, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E.
flag
to droop.]
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.
To fag out
,
to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

Fag

,
Verb.
T.
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.
Brain fag
.
(Med.)

Webster 1828 Edition


Fag

FAG

,
Verb.
T.
To beat. [Not in use.]

FAG

,
Noun.
A slave; one who works hard. [Not in use.]

FAG

,
Verb.
I.
[Heb. to fail, to languish.]
To become weary; to fail in strength; to be faint with weariness.
The Italian began to fag.
[A vulgar word.]

FAG

,
Noun.
A knot in cloth. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


fàg

fàg

See also: fag, fág, and -fag

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

fàg (past dh'fhàg, future fàgaidh, verbal noun fàgail, past participle fàgte)

  1. leave, quit, abandon, desert
  2. leave, make, cause
    Dh'fhàg an t-òran brònach mi. ― The song made/left me sad.