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fag

Translingual

Symbol

fag

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Finongan.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Finongan terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

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. (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
3. (UK, Ireland, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.

Usage notes

• The usage to refer to a cigarette is no longer readily understood in North America due to the prevalence of the use as a homophobic slur there (see etymology 3). It is now likely to be misunderstood as such or otherwise seen as offensive by people from that region. This can cause problems for people from other regions using the word like this on US-run social media platforms, even in local or regional spaces.

Synonyms

• (cigarette): ciggy (Britain, Ireland), smoke, (Cockney rhyming slang) oily rag

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).

Noun

fag (plural fags)

1. (UK, Ireland, colloquial, now rare) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
3. (UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.

Derived terms

• brain fag

Verb

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

2. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form, now rare) To make exhausted, tired out.
3. (intransitive, colloquial, now rare) 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.

4. (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
5. (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
6. (intransitive, UK, Ireland, now rare) To work hard, especially on menial chores.

Derived terms

• (to act as a servant): fagger, faggery, fagging (as a noun), fagmaster
• (to tire): fag out, fagged out

Usage notes

• As with the usage to refer to a cigarette (see etymology 1), these usages are likely to cause offence to or otherwise be seen as slurs by people from North America due to the prevalence of the usage as a slur (see etymology 3) in that region, even if their literal meaning is understood. Even in the UK and Ireland, due to the rarity of these senses and the prevalence of the usage to refer to a cigarette, these usages may cause confusion or misunderstandings.

Etymology 3

Clipping of faggot.

Noun

fag (plural fags)

2. (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an 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.”
3. (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.

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

Translations

References

Anagrams

• gaf, GFA, FGA, Afg.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• fagu, fau

Etymology

From Latin fāgus. 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): /faːˀɣ/, [ˈfæˀj], [ˈfæˀ], IPA^(key): [ˈfɑw-] (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)

Inflection

Derived terms

• fagfelt
• fagmand
• faglig
• faglitteratur
• skolefag

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fag, itself a borrowing from German Fach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faːɣ]
• Rhymes: -aːɣ

Noun

fag n (genitive singular fags, nominative plural fög)

1. subject (particular area of study)

   Synonym: námsgrein

Declension

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English fog.

Noun

fag

1. fog

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin fagus.

Noun

fag m

1. beech

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.

Old English

Adjective

fāg

1. alternative form of fāh

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: fag
• Homophone: -fag

Noun

fag m animal

1. phage, bacteriophage (virus that infects bacteria)

   Synonym: bakteriofag

Declension

Further reading

• fag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fāgus, from Proto-Italic *fāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech tree”).

Noun

fag m (plural fagi)

1. beech (tree of genus Fagus)

Declension

Related terms

• făget

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).

Noun

fag n (plural faguri)

1. (archaic) honeycomb

   Synonym: fagure

Welsh

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɡ/

Noun

fag

1. soft mutation of bag

Mutation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːɡ/

Noun

fag

1. soft mutation of mag

Mutation

References

Source: wiktionary.org