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单词 faggery
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faggeryn.

Etymology: < fag n.3 + -ery suffix. Compare earlier fagging n.1 3.
Obsolete.
Esp. in certain British independent boarding schools for boys: a system under which junior pupils are expected to carry out tasks or chores for senior pupils. Also: the fact or condition of being a fag (fag n.3 1b).
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faggery1834
1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 92/1 Faggery was an abuse too venerable..to be touched by profane hands.
1839 Carthusian 182 They were still to be doomed to the servile condition of Faggery, and be kept six hours a-day in school.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018).
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