fag
1 of 6verb (1)
ˈfag 
fagged; fagging
intransitive verb
: to work hard : toil
transitive verb
: to tire by strenuous activity : exhaust
fagged by the strenuous climb
fag
2 of 6noun (1)
1
chiefly British : toil, drudgery
it is such a fag; I came back tired to death
Jane Austen
Jane Austen2
: drudge sense 1
fag
3 of 6noun (2)
: an English public-school boy who acts as servant to an older schoolmate
fag
4 of 6verb (2)
fagged; fagging; fags
intransitive verb
: to serve as a fag (see fag entry 3) especially in an English public school
fagging for older boys during his first year
fag
5 of 6noun (3)
: cigarette
fag
6 of 6noun (4)
plural fags
offensive
: a gay person —used as a term of abuse and disparagement
faggy
ˈfa-gē
adjective offensive 
Synonyms
Verb (1)
- bang away
- beaver (away)
- dig (away)
- drudge
- endeavor
- grub
- hump
- hustle
- labor
- moil
- peg (away)
- plod
- plow
- plug
- slave
- slog
- strain
- strive
- struggle
- sweat
- toil
- travail
- tug
- work
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Word History
Etymology
Verb (1) and Noun (1)
perhaps from obsolete fag to droop, from fag fag end
Noun (2) and Verb (2)
probably short for faggot
Noun (3)
fag end
Noun (4)
see faggot
First Known Use
Verb (1)
1772, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
Noun (1)
1770, in the meaning defined at sense 2
Noun (2)
1785, in the meaning defined above
Verb (2)
1806, in the meaning defined above
Noun (3)
circa 1888, in the meaning defined above
Noun (4)
1921, in the meaning defined above
fagging
verb
1
as in struggling
to devote serious and sustained effort the road crew fagged mightily to move the boulder out of the way Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- struggling
- laboring
- working
- drudging
- humping
- sweating
- striving
- slaving
- grubbing
- tugging
- trying
- toiling
- hustling
- moiling
- slogging
- plowing
- plodding
- endeavoring
- plugging
- banging away
- straining
- travailing
- attacking
- sweating blood
- exercising
- digging (away)
- pegging (away)
- exerting
- beavering (away)
- scratching
- driving
- trudging
- overexerting
- overworking
- essaying
- wading
- digging in
- pitching in
- knuckling down
- scrabbling
- applying (oneself)
- eking out
- hammering (away)
- buckling (down)
- putting out
- grinding (out)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- breaking
- slackening
- loafing
- bumming
- idling
- shirking
- lounging
- chilling
- easing (up)
- dallying
- hanging (around or out)
- lazing
- resting
- letting up
- relaxing
- playing
- unwinding
- hanging
- lolling
- goldbricking
- hacking (around)
- slacking (off)
- basking
- trifling
- goofing (off)
- footling
- reposing
- dillydallying
- dabbling
- doodling
- vegging out
- fooling around
- goofing (around)
- hanging about
- puttering (around)
- monkeying (around)
- pottering (around)
- messing around
- fribbling
2
as in wearing
to use up all the physical energy of the long hike up the mountain had fagged us out Synonyms & Similar Words
- wearing
- tiring
- exhausting
- killing
- draining
- harassing
- wasting
- wearying
- breaking
- busting
- fatiguing
- weakening
- burning out
- knocking out
- frazzling
- wearing out
- washing out
- enfeebling
- outwearing
- enervating
- sapping
- debilitating
- doing in
- doing up
- wearing to a frazzle
- tuckering (out)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- strengthening
- invigorating
- activating
- resting
- energizing
- relaxing
- rejuvenating
- unwinding
- vitalizing
- nonobservance
- nonobservances
- nonobservant
- nonobvious
- nonobviousness
- nonoccupational
- nonoccurences
- nonoccurrence
- nonoccurrences
- nonofficial
- nonohmic
- nonoic acid
- nonoily
- nonop
- nonoperatic
- nonoperating
- nonoperational
- nonoperative
- nonoperator
- nonoperculate
- nonops
- nonoptical
- nonoptimal
- nonorchestral
- nonorganic