English Dictionary

fag

/fæɡ/

verb

(transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out. / (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.

He fagged out after a long day at work.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.

Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground.

意味（3）

(intransitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.

意味（4）

(transitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.

It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers.

意味（5）

(intransitive, Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.

This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.