fag

  • 21-fag — fag, fagički, fagija DEFINICIJA kao drugi dio riječi znači jedenje, proždiranje; jed, žder [antropofagija] ETIMOLOGIJA grč. phagos: koji jede; phagia: jedenje; phágeín: pojesti …

    Hrvatski jezični portal

  • 22fag — vb exhaust, jade, fatigue, *tire, weary, tucker …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 23fag- — *fag , *fah , *fanh germ.?, schwach. Verb: nhd. fügen, passen, festmachen?; ne. fit (Verb), fasten; Rekontruktionsbasis: ahd.; Hinweis: s. *fagja , *fōgjan; Etymologie: idg. *pā̆k̑ , *pā̆g̑ …

    Germanisches Wörterbuch

  • 24fag — I. /fæg / (say fag) Colloquial –verb (i) (fagged, fagging) 1. to work till wearied; work hard: to fag away at French. 2. to act as a fag. 3. to make a fag of. –noun 4. drudgery; toil. 5. British a younger boy at a public school required to… …

  • 25fag —    Since the late eighteenth century the cry of ‘Fag!’ in a British public school has been a summons for a junior boy to attend on a senior boy in order to carry out some duty. The word ‘fag’ here derives from the verb ‘to fag’, which means to do …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 26fag — 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

  • 27fag — {{11}}fag (n.) British slang for cigarette (originally, especially, the butt of a smoked cigarette), 1888, probably from fag end extreme end, loose piece (1610s), from fag loose piece (late 15c.), which is perhaps related to FAG (Cf. fag) (v.).… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 28fag — 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 …

    Word origins

  • 29fag — I. verb (fagged; fagging) Etymology: perhaps from obsolete fag to droop, from fag fag end Date: 1772 intransitive verb to work hard ; toil transitive verb to tire by strenuous activity ; exhaust …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 30fag — fag1 /fag/, v., fagged, fagging, n. v.t. 1. to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out. 2. Brit. to require (a younger public school pupil) to do menial chores. 3. Naut. to fray or unlay the end of (a… …

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