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fag
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”)
Noun
fag (plural fags)
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
- 1968 January 25, The Bulletin, Oregon,
- 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.
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15,
- 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.
- 2011, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories, unnumbered page,
- 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.’
- 1968 January 25, The Bulletin, Oregon,
- (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
Synonyms
- (cigarette): ciggy (Australia), smoke, (Cockney rhyming slang) oily rag
Derived terms
- fag end
- fag packet
Translations
Etymology 2
Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).
Noun
fag (plural fags)
- (Britain, dated, colloquial) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
- 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1992, Complete Works of Jane Austen, p. 123:
- 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.
- 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1992, Complete Works of Jane Austen, p. 123:
- (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- 1791, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, Vol. 4, page 67:
- I had the character at ?chool of being the very be?t fag that ever came into it.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 18:
- 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.
- 1791, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, Vol. 4, page 67:
Verb
fag (third-person singular simple present fags, present participle fagging, simple past and past participle fagged)
- (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
- a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, "Fag", entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12,
- Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground.
- a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, "Fag", entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12,
- (intransitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
- (intransitive, Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
Derived terms
- (to act as a servant): fagger, faggery, fagging (as a noun), fagmaster
- (to tire): fagged out
Etymology 3
From faggot.
Noun
fag (plural fags)
- (chiefly US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one.
- 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.”
- 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.
- (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
- Why did you do that, you fag?
Usage notes
In North America, fag is often considered highly offensive, although some gay people have tried to reclaim it. (Compare faggot.) The humorousness of derived terms fag hag and fag stag is sometimes considered to lessen their offensiveness.
Synonyms
- (male homosexual): See Thesaurus:homosexual person
- (annoying person): See Thesaurus:jerk
Derived terms
- fag hag
- fag stag
Translations
Anagrams
- Afg., gaf
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- fagu, fau
Etymology
From Latin f?gus. Compare Romanian fag.
Noun
fag m (plural fadz)
- beech
Derived terms
- fagã
Related terms
- fãdzet
Danish
Etymology
From German Fach (“compartment, drawer, subject”), from Old High German fah (“wall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa???/, [?fæ?j], [?fæ?], IPA(key): [?f?w-] (in derivatives)
Noun
fag n (singular definite faget, plural indefinite fag)
- subject (of study)
- trade, craft, profession
- bay (the distance between two vertical or horizontal supports in roofs and walls)
Derived terms
- fagfelt
- fagmand
- faglig
- faglitteratur
- skolefag
Inflection
Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish fag, itself a borrowing from German Fach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fa??]
- Rhymes: -a??
Noun
fag n (genitive singular fags, nominative plural fög)
- subject (particular area of study)
Declension
Synonyms
- (subject): námsgrein
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German or German Low German fak; compare with German Fach
Noun
fag n (definite singular faget, indefinite plural fag, definite plural faga or fagene)
- subject (e.g., at school)
- profession, trade, discipline
Derived terms
References
- “fag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German or German Low German fak; compare with German Fach
Noun
fag n (definite singular faget, indefinite plural fag, definite plural faga)
- subject (e.g., at school)
- profession, trade, discipline
Derived terms
References
- “fag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fak/
Noun
fag m anim
- phage
Declension
Romanian
Etymology 1
From Latin f?gus, from Proto-Italic *f?gos, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh??os (“beech tree”).
Noun
fag m (plural fagi)
- beech (tree of genus Fagus)
Declension
Related terms
- f?get
Etymology 2
From Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
Noun
fag n (plural faguri)
- (archaic) honeycomb
Synonyms
- fagure
Welsh
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va?/
Noun
fag
- Soft mutation of bag.
Mutation
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va??/
Noun
fag
- Soft mutation of mag.
Mutation
fag From the web:
faa
English
Noun
faa (plural faas)
- The letter ? in the Arabic script.
Anagrams
- A.A.F., AAF, AFA
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- faahe
Etymology
From Old High German f?han, from Proto-Germanic *fanhan?. Compare German fahen, fangen, Dutch vangen, English fang, Icelandic fá.
Verb
faa
- (Uri) to catch
Conjugation
Strong:
Mixed:
References
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 86.
Jamamadí
Noun
faa
- (Banawá) water
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Middle English
Noun
faa
- Alternative form of fo
Swahili
Etymology
Of Bantu origin.
Pronunciation
Verb
-faa (infinitive kufaa)
- to fit
- to be suitable or useful
- Synonym: halisi
Conjugation
Derived terms
- Nominal derivations:
- kifaa
Woleaian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.
Numeral
faa
- four
faa From the web:
- what faa stands for
- what faang
- what faa do
- what fast