FAG

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]

2.
v.

To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.

3.
v.

To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.

4.
v.

To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

5.
v.

To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.

6.
v.

Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

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