fags

Meaning of fags

plural noun
  1. a tiring or unwelcome task.
    it's too much of a fag to drive all the way there and back again
  2. a junior pupil at a public school who does minor chores for a senior pupil.
    a fag at school who has suffered a well-earned beating
verb, 3rd person present
  1. work hard, especially at a tedious task.
    he didn't have to fag away in a lab to get the right answer

mid 16th century (as a verb in the sense ‘grow weary’): of unknown origin. Compare with flag4.

plural noun

a gay man.

1920s: short for faggot (sense 1 of the noun).

plural noun
  1. a cigarette.
    she's got a fag in her mouth, and she's squinting her eyes against the smoke

late 19th century: elliptically from fag end.

Information about fags

  • The singular form of fags is: fag.
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Hyphenation of fags

fags

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • fags is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

fags synonyms

Meaning a routine task, especially a household one:

chore

Meaning a spell of difficult, tiring work or travelling:

slog

Meaning hard dull work:

grind

Meaning hard menial or dull work:

drudgery

Meaning physical or mental effort:

exertion

Meaning difficulty or problems:

trouble

Meaning effort, trouble, or difficulty:

bother

Meaning highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury:

pain

Meaning severe suffering or privation:

hardship

Meaning the hollow part inside a gun barrel or other tube:

bore

Meaning moisture exuded through the pores of the skin, typically in profuse quantities as a reaction to heat, physical exertion, fever, or fear:

sweat

Meaning a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking:

cigarette

Meaning a cigarette:

cig, ciggy, gasper

Meaning a small flap or strip of material attached to or projecting from something, used to hold, fasten, or manipulate it, or for identification and information:

tab

Meaning a long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases:

tube

Meaning a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in air, typically one emitted from a burning substance:

smoke

Meaning the projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal:

snout

Meaning an injury caused by exposure to heat or flame:

burn

Words that rhyme with fags

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