Meaning of Fag | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
   US
2. A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
   Ireland, UK, archaic, colloquial
3. A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.
   Canada, US, endearing, offensive, sometimes, usually, vulgar
4. A cigarette.
   Ireland, UK, colloquial
5. A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
   Ireland, UK, colloquial, historical
6. An annoying person.
   US, derogatory, offensive, vulgar
7. The worst part or end of a thing.
   Ireland, UK, colloquial, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“He′d Phase Out Fag Industry Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.”

“Oh, rent a flat above a shop / And cut your hair and get a job / And smoke some fags and play some pool / Pretend you never went to school”

“All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their wet fag ends into the fire.”

“So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag. Then after a while they were asking me. They′d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a fag?’ And then I got better and I′d finish the sheep and they′d say ‘Christ, I haven′t finished me bloody fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’”

“Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.”

“We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death.”

“Keeping up appearances is a bit of a fag, I grant, but if a girl respects herself it’s up to her not to let herself get slack.”

“I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.”

““He was my fag at Eton,” Warrington said. “I ought to have licked him a little more.””

“A gang of fags was mobbing about by the notice-boards. They fell silent as he approached. He patted one of them on the head. ‘Pretty children,’ he sighed, digging into his waistcoat pocket and pulling out a handful of change. ‘Tonight you shall eat.’ Scattering the coins at their feet, he moved on.”

“[1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716. Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”]”

“In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag," " fruit," etc.). ...”

“When they pick out a set of clubs for him to rent, he is so indifferent and silent the freckled kid in charge stares at him as if he's a moron. The thought flits through his brain that Eccles is known as a fag and he has become the new pet.”

“A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag.”

“... what appeared to be overt appeals to anti-gay sentiment. When House Majority Whip Dick Armey referred to fellow Congressman Barney Frank as "Barney Fag" in 1995, he suffered a barage of negative publicity that prompted him to explain his choice of words as a slip of the tongue.”

“Why did you do that, you fag?”

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