Word Frequency
fag1 (fæɡ
)
Definitions
noun
- (informal) a boring or wearisome task ⇒
it's a fag having to walk all that way
- (British) (esp formerly) a young public school boy who performs menial chores for an older boy or prefect
verb
Word forms: fags, fagging, fagged
- when tr, often foll by out (informal) to become or cause to become exhausted by hard toil or work
- usually intr (British) to do or cause to do menial chores in a public school ⇒
Brown fags for Lee
Word Origin
C18: of obscure originfag2 (fæɡ
)
Definitions
noun
- (British) a slang word for cigarette
- a fag end, as of cloth
Word Origin
C16 (in the sense: something hanging loose, flap): of obscure originTranslations for 'fag'
- British English: fag A fag is a cigarette.fæɡ NOUN
- Arabic: سِيجَارَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: cigarro
- Chinese: 香烟
- Croatian: cigareta
- Czech: retkocigareta
- Danish: smøg
- Dutch: saffie
- European Spanish: pitillo
- Finnish: ikävä homma
- French: clope
- German: Plackerei
- Greek: αγγαρεία
- Italian: sigaretta
- Japanese: つまらない仕事
- Korean: 고된 일
- Norwegian: slit
- Polish: harówka
- Portuguese: cigarro
- Romanian: țigară țigări
- Russian: сигарета
- Spanish: pitillo
- Swedish: cigg
- Thai: บุหรี่
- Turkish: sigaraargo
- Ukrainian: цигарка
- Vietnamese: điếu thuốc
Example Sentences Including 'fag'
"Then they kiss passionately, followed immediately by Matt declaiming, "I'm not a fag.Globe and Mail (2003)
A boy was sweeping the bottle tops and fag ends round the tables outside.WHITE LIES (2003)
In contrast, where I once was had the architectural style of fag ends and bottle tops.The Australian (2005)
Jack White on a rare fag break JACK WHITE'S'ALTERNATIVE ' CAREER JACK WHITE has been recording BRENDAN BENSON's latest album in DETROIT.NME (New Musical Express) (2004)
New York is now a non-smoking city, so going outside a restaurant or bar for a fag isn't very enjoyable in this weather.A MULTITUDE OF SINS: Golden Brown, The Stranglers and Strange Little Girls (2004)
One said: "Chris was laughing and joking with people, enjoying a drink and a fag.Sun, News of the World (2002)
Pushing the fag packet into her rubbish bag, I made a show of breathing deeply.THE MANANA MAN (2002)
Your destination stops being somewhere you've looked forward to going to, but becomes the place where you can have a fag.Independent (1999)
`Don't be wicked, John," laughs the elderly woman with the fag.Looking For the Spark
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