faggingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈfaɡɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfæɡɪŋ/

Etymology: < fag v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The fact of becoming tired after exertion; flagging. Also: an instance of this. Cf. fag v.¹ 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1641 R. Baillie Let. (1841) I. 347 In the end, after some lashness and fagging, he made..ane pathetick oration.

1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 48 Iohns former fainting and fagging might have made him forget his errand.

1694 tr. J. Brown Christ in Believers Hope of Glory 21 This should comfort against wearying and faggings in Duty, for that Glory will strengthen you in the work of Glory.

1795 Scraps 43 Fagging, head-ache, loss of sight..Repay your anxious pains.

1885 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity Jan. 299 Among the most important..measures, is the early recognition of fagging of the brain, and the fact that such fagging is simply a depressed physiological state.

1902 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 23 July All this is valuable preparation,..involves no ruin to eyesight..and no premature fagging of the brain.

1925 Official Bull. of Med. Women's Club of Chicago 13 10 The fagging of the endocrines are responsible for premature old age.

1973 Zastosowania Matematyki 13 439 In many..systems, the efficiency of the operator..decreases as time elapses. Thus, in such systems ‘fagging’ of the operator should be taken into account.

†2. The action of working hard or of tiring oneself at something; hard work; an instance of this. Also with about. Cf. fag v.¹ Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > action of

wrestling?c1225

travailingc1330

tewing1394

labouringc1400

sweatingc1430

toiling1549

moiling1565

carking1583

allaboration1727

fagging1777

bullocking1888

schlepping1937

1777 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. ii. 232 After all this fagging, Mr. Lowndes sent me Word that he..could not think of printing it [sc. the book].

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) I. 194 The ordinary indoor fagging of the chamber in George's Square.

1850 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 110 I had such a fagging about last year.

1895 Belgravia Aug. 357 ‘I hate fagging about,’ Cicely announced with some temper as she was hauled off.

1919 F. Wray tr. M. Berger Life at Stake ii. ii. 54 This fagging was an irony of fate that could not last.

3. 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 action of carrying out such chores. Cf. fag n.³ 1b. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > fagging

fagging1785

faggery1834

1785 Morning Post 8 Jan. The folly of fagging surely ought to be abolished.

1790 J. Berkenhout Vol. Lett. to Son at University Index 366 Servility, the consequences of fagging at public schools.

1824 T. Medwin Jrnl. Conversat. Byron 1821 & 1822 61 Drury's kindness..enabled me to bear..fagging.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days (ed. 3) Pref. p. viii His play-hours are occupied in fagging.

1917 V. S. Bryant Public School Syst. v. 64 The ‘fagging’ system is perfectly controlled at the present time.

1977 E. R. Dodds Missing Persons iii. 16 The school..had an advantage over many of its English rivals: there was no fagging or overt bullying.

2006 Times 8 Nov. 71/3 As a housemaster [he] ended fagging and corporal punishment.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

faggingn.²

Brit.

/ˈfaɡɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfæɡɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fag v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < fag v.² + -ing suffix¹.

Now archaic and rare (U.S. in later use).

The action of beating or thrashing a person; a beating, a thrashing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person

threshingOE

sousingc1580

rib-roast1595

basting1599

swingeing1603

cuffing1610

lamming1611

rib-roasting1613

mauling1621

pinking1637

drubbing1650

diverberation1651

verberation1661

trimming1675

rib1699

thrashing1720

dousing1721

fagging1746

bumping1751

dusting1799

clapperclawing1806

milling1806

hiding1809

punishment1811

doing1814

bethumping1831

mugging1846

jacketing1850

frailing1851

pasting1851

towelling1851

tanning1863

fum-fum1885

ribbing1894

paddywhack1898

tanking1905

beating-up1915

shellacking1931

sloshing1931

clobbering1948

twatting1963

duffing-up1967

1746 A. Arbuthnot Mem. Miss Jenny Cameron 191 Fagging I care not a Fart for; Teeth and Nails will do their Part, Sir.

1759 J. Yeomans Abecedarian 21 The child..is stricken with such amazement..from..his former fagging and drubbings (I don't call it correction).

1852 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 1 May He ran away to escape the excessive faggings of his master.

2009 A. Randall Rebel Yell xxi. 234 Stories swirled..of flayings and faggings, of peelings and proddings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

faggingn.³

Brit.

/ˈfaɡɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfæɡɪŋ/

Forms: 1800s vagging, 1800s– fagging.

Etymology: < fag v.⁴ + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier bagging n.²

Now rare (chiefly historical).

The action or practice of cutting (a cereal crop or stubble) down to the ground by chopping with a heavy reaping hook (see fagging hook n. (a) at Compounds). Cf. bagging n.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > specific method of using hook

bagging1677

fagging1807

1807 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex (ed. 2) vii. 216 The operation of reaping is performed by cutting the crop down by a succession of blows, made within two or three inches of the ground. This the farmers call bagging (fagging).

1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 28 Little fagging or bagging..is performed except in the vicinity of the metropolis.

1879 R. Jefferies Amateur Poacher iv. 66 True reaping is now never seen: ‘vagging’ makes the short stubble that forces the partridges into the turnips.

2004 M. Roberts in P. Lane et al. Women, Work & Wages in Eng. 1600–1850 iii. 84 The sickle continued to have an appeal through its sheer neatness, whereas the act of fagging or bagging had a more brutal, chopping motion.

Compounds

fagging hook n. (a) a heavy, short-handled tool similar to a sickle but without a serrated edge, used esp. in reaping, a bill hook; cf. fag-hook n. (a) at fag v.⁴ Compounds; (b) a hooked stick with which stalks of a cereal crop are drawn towards the person harvesting (also used in hedge trimming, etc.); cf. fag-hook n. (b) at fag v.⁴ Compounds.

ΚΠ

1818 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 28 Feb. Wounding Robert Dolley, with a sickle and fagging hook, in such manner as to endanger his life.

1840 Irish Penny Jrnl. 22 Aug. 60/1 Last year he cut and bound half an acre of wheat himself with a fagging-hook.

1884 R. Jeffries Life of Fields 154 This crooked stick is the fagging-hook used to pull the wheat towards the reaper with the left hand.

1968 Illustr. London News 24 Aug. 19/1 Many a woodman cutting bracken with a fagging hook,..has been unaware of the presence of a wood ants' mound.

fagging-stick n. a hooked stick with which stalks of a cereal crop are drawn towards the person harvesting; = fagging hook n. (b).

ΚΠ

1875 Graphic 11 Sept. 263/3 The wheat is bent back with a curved stick held in the left hand called a ‘fagging-stick’.

1939 H. J. Massingham Country Relics v. 118 The fagging stick also leaned the corn that had just been cut at an angle of about 45° against the standing corn.

1984 F. Bray Sci. & Civilisation in China VI. ii. 335 The Chinese did make use of a fagging-stick..to hold the grain steady in small bundles as it was cut.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

faggingadj.

Brit.

/ˈfaɡɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfæɡɪŋ/

Etymology: < fag v.¹ + -ing suffix².

Now rare.

†1. That toils or labours; hard-working, diligent. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling

swinking?c1225

travailinga1398

drudging1548

toiling1552

toilsome1566

toilful1596

sweaty1603

droiling1607

carkingc1620

laboriferous1656

fagging1665

moiling1692

tewing1855

maulinga1864

bullocking1900

1665 R. Brathwait Captive-captain 109 How will this fagging Rump be made up?

1795 W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 8 Aug. (1965) iii. 279 He is the most fagging Student I ever knew and this to the exclusion of all other enjoyments.

1868 J. R. MacDuff Memories Olivet xiv. 275 Making sure of the world's promised ‘penny’ to its fagging labourers.

2. That tires a person out; fatiguing, exhausting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion

wearyc1315

soakingc1440

tired1548

moilingc1566

wearisome1593

tiring1594

overtiring1598

tiresome1598

defatigating1634

defatigable1654

fatigable1656

fatiguing1708

fatiguesomea1734

jading1766

fagging1787

wearying1798

exhausting18..

taversome1808

harassing1833

killing1850

trashing1861

trachling1902

1787 J. Mulock in tr. Some Orig. Persian Lett. Translator's Pref. p. iii The fagging Labour of a verbatim Translator.

1800 St. George & St. Patrick i. 13 The trav'ling is fagging and tedious.

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles i. v. 25 Mine is a fagging profession!

1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black xix. 377 All this high-stepping is so fagging that we lie down under a tree and rest.

1966 Times 2 Dec. 17/1 The work is fagging. It is not art, it is endurance that is required.

Compounds

† fagging partner n. Obsolete a business partner who carries out administrative work, esp. of a menial nature.

ΚΠ

1798 T. S. Surr George Barnwell I. xv. 191 The 'compting-house,..where Mr. Drudge, the fagging partner, resided.

1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. ii. 20 He transacted more business..than many of his fraternity who..left the cares of their business to sixteen careless clerks, and an idle fagging partner.

1834 Standard 30 Oct. 1/1 (advt.) He will have no objection to become what is termed, the ‘fagging partner’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1641

n.²1746

n.³1807

adj.1665

单词	fagging
释义	faggingn.¹ Brit. /ˈfaɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfæɡɪŋ/ Etymology: < fag v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The fact of becoming tired after exertion; flagging. Also: an instance of this. Cf. fag v.¹ 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1641 R. Baillie Let. (1841) I. 347 In the end, after some lashness and fagging, he made..ane pathetick oration. 1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 48 Iohns former fainting and fagging might have made him forget his errand. 1694 tr. J. Brown Christ in Believers Hope of Glory 21 This should comfort against wearying and faggings in Duty, for that Glory will strengthen you in the work of Glory. 1795 Scraps 43 Fagging, head-ache, loss of sight..Repay your anxious pains. 1885 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity Jan. 299 Among the most important..measures, is the early recognition of fagging of the brain, and the fact that such fagging is simply a depressed physiological state. 1902 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 23 July All this is valuable preparation,..involves no ruin to eyesight..and no premature fagging of the brain. 1925 Official Bull. of Med. Women's Club of Chicago 13 10 The fagging of the endocrines are responsible for premature old age. 1973 Zastosowania Matematyki 13 439 In many..systems, the efficiency of the operator..decreases as time elapses. Thus, in such systems ‘fagging’ of the operator should be taken into account. †2. The action of working hard or of tiring oneself at something; hard work; an instance of this. Also with about. Cf. fag v.¹ Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > action of wrestling?c1225 travailingc1330 tewing1394 labouringc1400 sweatingc1430 toiling1549 moiling1565 carking1583 allaboration1727 fagging1777 bullocking1888 schlepping1937 1777 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. ii. 232 After all this fagging, Mr. Lowndes sent me Word that he..could not think of printing it [sc. the book]. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) I. 194 The ordinary indoor fagging of the chamber in George's Square. 1850 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 110 I had such a fagging about last year. 1895 Belgravia Aug. 357 ‘I hate fagging about,’ Cicely announced with some temper as she was hauled off. 1919 F. Wray tr. M. Berger Life at Stake ii. ii. 54 This fagging was an irony of fate that could not last. 3. 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 action of carrying out such chores. Cf. fag n.³ 1b. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > fagging fagging1785 faggery1834 1785 Morning Post 8 Jan. The folly of fagging surely ought to be abolished. 1790 J. Berkenhout Vol. Lett. to Son at University Index 366 Servility, the consequences of fagging at public schools. 1824 T. Medwin Jrnl. Conversat. Byron 1821 & 1822 61 Drury's kindness..enabled me to bear..fagging. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days (ed. 3) Pref. p. viii His play-hours are occupied in fagging. 1917 V. S. Bryant Public School Syst. v. 64 The ‘fagging’ system is perfectly controlled at the present time. 1977 E. R. Dodds Missing Persons iii. 16 The school..had an advantage over many of its English rivals: there was no fagging or overt bullying. 2006 Times 8 Nov. 71/3 As a housemaster [he] ended fagging and corporal punishment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). faggingn.² Brit. /ˈfaɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfæɡɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fag v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < fag v.² + -ing suffix¹. Now archaic and rare (U.S. in later use). The action of beating or thrashing a person; a beating, a thrashing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person threshingOE sousingc1580 rib-roast1595 basting1599 swingeing1603 cuffing1610 lamming1611 rib-roasting1613 mauling1621 pinking1637 drubbing1650 diverberation1651 verberation1661 trimming1675 rib1699 thrashing1720 dousing1721 fagging1746 bumping1751 dusting1799 clapperclawing1806 milling1806 hiding1809 punishment1811 doing1814 bethumping1831 mugging1846 jacketing1850 frailing1851 pasting1851 towelling1851 tanning1863 fum-fum1885 ribbing1894 paddywhack1898 tanking1905 beating-up1915 shellacking1931 sloshing1931 clobbering1948 twatting1963 duffing-up1967 1746 A. Arbuthnot Mem. Miss Jenny Cameron 191 Fagging I care not a Fart for; Teeth and Nails will do their Part, Sir. 1759 J. Yeomans Abecedarian 21 The child..is stricken with such amazement..from..his former fagging and drubbings (I don't call it correction). 1852 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 1 May He ran away to escape the excessive faggings of his master. 2009 A. Randall Rebel Yell xxi. 234 Stories swirled..of flayings and faggings, of peelings and proddings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). faggingn.³ Brit. /ˈfaɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfæɡɪŋ/ Forms: 1800s vagging, 1800s– fagging. Etymology: < fag v.⁴ + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier bagging n.² Now rare (chiefly historical). The action or practice of cutting (a cereal crop or stubble) down to the ground by chopping with a heavy reaping hook (see fagging hook n. (a) at Compounds). Cf. bagging n.² ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > specific method of using hook bagging1677 fagging1807 1807 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex (ed. 2) vii. 216 The operation of reaping is performed by cutting the crop down by a succession of blows, made within two or three inches of the ground. This the farmers call bagging (fagging). 1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 28 Little fagging or bagging..is performed except in the vicinity of the metropolis. 1879 R. Jefferies Amateur Poacher iv. 66 True reaping is now never seen: ‘vagging’ makes the short stubble that forces the partridges into the turnips. 2004 M. Roberts in P. Lane et al. Women, Work & Wages in Eng. 1600–1850 iii. 84 The sickle continued to have an appeal through its sheer neatness, whereas the act of fagging or bagging had a more brutal, chopping motion. Compounds fagging hook n. (a) a heavy, short-handled tool similar to a sickle but without a serrated edge, used esp. in reaping, a bill hook; cf. fag-hook n. (a) at fag v.⁴ Compounds; (b) a hooked stick with which stalks of a cereal crop are drawn towards the person harvesting (also used in hedge trimming, etc.); cf. fag-hook n. (b) at fag v.⁴ Compounds. ΚΠ 1818 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 28 Feb. Wounding Robert Dolley, with a sickle and fagging hook, in such manner as to endanger his life. 1840 Irish Penny Jrnl. 22 Aug. 60/1 Last year he cut and bound half an acre of wheat himself with a fagging-hook. 1884 R. Jeffries Life of Fields 154 This crooked stick is the fagging-hook used to pull the wheat towards the reaper with the left hand. 1968 Illustr. London News 24 Aug. 19/1 Many a woodman cutting bracken with a fagging hook,..has been unaware of the presence of a wood ants' mound. fagging-stick n. a hooked stick with which stalks of a cereal crop are drawn towards the person harvesting; = fagging hook n. (b). ΚΠ 1875 Graphic 11 Sept. 263/3 The wheat is bent back with a curved stick held in the left hand called a ‘fagging-stick’. 1939 H. J. Massingham Country Relics v. 118 The fagging stick also leaned the corn that had just been cut at an angle of about 45° against the standing corn. 1984 F. Bray Sci. & Civilisation in China VI. ii. 335 The Chinese did make use of a fagging-stick..to hold the grain steady in small bundles as it was cut. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). faggingadj. Brit. /ˈfaɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfæɡɪŋ/ Etymology: < fag v.¹ + -ing suffix². Now rare. †1. That toils or labours; hard-working, diligent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling swinking?c1225 travailinga1398 drudging1548 toiling1552 toilsome1566 toilful1596 sweaty1603 droiling1607 carkingc1620 laboriferous1656 fagging1665 moiling1692 tewing1855 maulinga1864 bullocking1900 1665 R. Brathwait Captive-captain 109 How will this fagging Rump be made up? 1795 W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 8 Aug. (1965) iii. 279 He is the most fagging Student I ever knew and this to the exclusion of all other enjoyments. 1868 J. R. MacDuff Memories Olivet xiv. 275 Making sure of the world's promised ‘penny’ to its fagging labourers. 2. That tires a person out; fatiguing, exhausting. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion wearyc1315 soakingc1440 tired1548 moilingc1566 wearisome1593 tiring1594 overtiring1598 tiresome1598 defatigating1634 defatigable1654 fatigable1656 fatiguing1708 fatiguesomea1734 jading1766 fagging1787 wearying1798 exhausting18.. taversome1808 harassing1833 killing1850 trashing1861 trachling1902 1787 J. Mulock in tr. Some Orig. Persian Lett. Translator's Pref. p. iii The fagging Labour of a verbatim Translator. 1800 St. George & St. Patrick i. 13 The trav'ling is fagging and tedious. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles i. v. 25 Mine is a fagging profession! 1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black xix. 377 All this high-stepping is so fagging that we lie down under a tree and rest. 1966 Times 2 Dec. 17/1 The work is fagging. It is not art, it is endurance that is required. Compounds † fagging partner n. Obsolete a business partner who carries out administrative work, esp. of a menial nature. ΚΠ 1798 T. S. Surr George Barnwell I. xv. 191 The 'compting-house,..where Mr. Drudge, the fagging partner, resided. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. ii. 20 He transacted more business..than many of his fraternity who..left the cares of their business to sixteen careless clerks, and an idle fagging partner. 1834 Standard 30 Oct. 1/1 (advt.) He will have no objection to become what is termed, the ‘fagging partner’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1641n.²1746n.³1807adj.1665
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Compounds

faggingadj.

Compounds

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