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fagless en · ADJ

Etymology

From fag + -less.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK, colloquial) Without a cigarette.
   • She gave him the whole cigarette and he swaggered back to the group, flaunting his trophy to the fagless. 2009, Raphael Selbourne, Beauty:
2. (dated) That does not fag or tire; untiring.
   • fagless toil; a fagless worker
   • That is he who, true and fagless, / Toiled for Scotland's weal and fame, / Where the name of good Lord Douglas / Still stirs up the patriot's flame. 1883, Dugald Ferguson, Castle Gay, and Other Poems, page 30:

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