different between fag vs fruit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”)

Noun

fag (plural fags)

1. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
2. (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.’

3. (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)

1. (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.

2. (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.

Verb

fag (third-person singular simple present fags, present participle fagging, simple past and past participle fagged)

1. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
2. (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.

3. (intransitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
4. (transitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
5. (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)

1. (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.”
2. (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)

1. 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)

1. subject (of study)
2. trade, craft, profession
3. 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)

1. 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)

1. subject (e.g., at school)
2. 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)

1. subject (e.g., at school)
2. profession, trade, discipline

Derived terms

References

• “fag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fak/

Noun

fag m anim

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (archaic) honeycomb

Synonyms

• fagure

Welsh

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?/

Noun

fag

1. Soft mutation of bag.

Mutation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va??/

Noun

fag

1. Soft mutation of mag.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English frute, fruit, fruct, fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin fructus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and fr?x (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Displaced native Middle English ovet ("fruit", from Old English ofett; see English ovest), Middle English wastom, wastum ("fruit, growth", from Old English wæstm), and Middle English blede ("fruit, flower, offspring", from Old English bl?d; see English blead).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fro?ot, IPA^(key): /f?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f?ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

fruit (countable and uncountable, plural fruits) (see Usage notes for discussion of plural)

1. (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
2. Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
3. (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
   1. The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
   2. The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
4. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
5. (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

6. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figuratively) an effeminate man. [from 1900]
7. (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.

Usage notes

• In the botanical and figurative senses, fruit is usually treated as uncountable:

  a bowl of fruit; eat plenty of fruit; the tree provides fruit.

• fruits is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense:

  berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits; the fruits of this plant split into two parts.

• When fruit is treated as uncountable in the botanical sense, a piece of fruit is often used as a singulative.
• In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits.
• The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fructose
• frugivore
• frugivorous

Descendants

• Bislama: frut
• Jamaican Creole: fruut
• ? Japanese: ???? (fur?tsu)

Translations

Verb

fruit (third-person singular simple present fruits, present participle fruiting, simple past and past participle fruited)

1. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Translations

See also

• Category:Fruits for a list of fruits

Further reading

• Fruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of fruits on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin fructus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?f?ujt/

Noun

fruit m (plural fruits)

1. A fruit.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frœy?t/
• Hyphenation: fruit
• Rhymes: -œy?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch fruut, froyt, from Old French fruit, from Latin fr?ctus. Doublet of vrucht.

Noun

fruit n (uncountable)

1. (usually collective) fruit (produced by trees or bushes, or any sweet vegetable; only literal sense)

Synonyms

• ooft (archaic)
• vrucht (also metaphorical result)

Derived terms

• fruitachtig
• fruitig
• fruitmand
• fruitpap
• fruitpers
• fruitschaal
• fruitsoort
• fruitsuiker
• fruittaart
• fruitvlieg

- fruit types

• boomfruit
• steenfruit

Related terms

• grapefruit

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch fruten, older friten (“to fry”), from Old French frit, past participle of frire (“to fry”).

Verb

fruit

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of fruiten
2. imperative of fruiten

French

Etymology

From Middle French fruict, a latinized spelling of Old French fruit, from Latin fr?ctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), a derivative of fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??i/
• Homophone: fruits

Noun

fruit m (plural fruits)

1. fruit

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: fwi

Further reading

• “fruit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

fruit (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of frute

Old French

Etymology

From Latin fructus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fryi?t/

Noun

fruit m (oblique plural fruiz or fruitz, nominative singular fruiz or fruitz, nominative plural fruit)

1. fruit
   • circa 1170, Christian of Troyes, Érec et Énide

     Oisiaus et veneison et fruit

     bird, venison and fruit

Descendants

• Gallo: frut
• Middle French: fruict
  • French: fruit
    • Haitian Creole: fwi
• Norman: frit
• Picard: frut
• Walloon: frut
• ? Middle Dutch: fruut, froyt
  • Dutch: fruit
• ? Middle English: frute, fruit, fruct, fruyt, frut, freut
  • English: fruit
    • Bislama: frut
    • Jamaican Creole: fruut
    • ? Japanese: ???? (fur?tsu)
  • Scots: fruit, frute
  • ? Cornish: frut