fagged out en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From fag (“to make exhausted”, verb).
Meanings
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(slang) Very tired, or exhausted by hard work or physical exercise.
When at last I decided that it was useless to go on, and that I must make up my mind to spend at least one night on the moors, I threw myself down thoroughly fagged out.
1895, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, The King in Yellow, The Demoiselle d'Ys:I busied myself looking for a likely place, began to scrape together some heather and juniper twigs and made a bed on a small slope where it was fairly dry, opened my parcel and took out the blanket. I was tired and fagged out from the long walk and went to bed at once. I tossed and turned many times before I finally got settled.
2016 [1890], Sverre Lyngstad, transl., Hunger, paperback edition, Canongate Books Ltd., translation of Sult by Knut Hamsun, Part One, page 45:I was fagged out, and for the first time in years felt a question as to my ability to cope with an antagonist; […]
1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more fagged out | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most fagged out | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Synonyms
whacked · played out · enervated · washed out · worn · heavyeyed · weary · bleareyed · beat · weariful · fagged out · forworn · fatigued · nadgered · banjaxed · shot · sleepy · done in · busted · pooped out · worn out · whipped · bleary · drained · forlagen · shagged out · bushed · done up · Kerry Packered · spent · buggered · wrecked · tired out · out of gas · wappened · pooped · tuckered · jaded · dead tired · knacked · fucked · zonked · bone-tired · stuffed · pumped · cream crackered · knackered · jiggered · shagged out · gassed · knackered · dog-weary · tired · shattered · forfairn · dog-tired · fried · shagged · run-down · done · exhausted · bleary-eyed · languid · tuckered out