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fagging en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, countable, historical, uncountable) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
    • We are happy we never had anything to do with faggings and floggings. We can well remember the terrific impression they made on our mind, as our friends were afflicted by them. 1841, The English Journal, volume 1, page 222:
    • The public schoolboy is taught to bear whippings and faggings without murmuring. 1922, Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt, Record of Christian Work, volume 41, page 343:

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Synonyms

faggery

fagging en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of fag
    form of fag