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fagger en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfæɡə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

From fag + -er.

Meanings

1. (historical) A senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.
   • It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers. 1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63:
   • Grown bold by impunity, the faggers resolved to divide the boys of the classes below them among themselves as fags by lots. 1860, William Henry Giles Kingston, Ernest Bracebridge: or, Schoolboy Days:

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