fag /ˈfæg/
 (v.)疲勞,苦幹,辛苦工作苦工,疲勞;煙頭,布頭,零頭


 Fag n.
 1. A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw. [Obs.]


 Fag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fagged p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging ]
 1. To become weary; to tire.
    Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag.   --G. Mackenzie.
 2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
    Read, fag, and subdue this chapter.   --Coleridge.
 3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
 To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.


 Fag, v. t.
 1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
 2. Anything that fatigues. [R.]
    It is such a fag, I came back tired to death.   --Miss Austen.
 Brain fag. Med. See Cerebropathy.

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 fag
      n 1: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
           faggot, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof,
            poove, pouf]
      2: finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn: cigarette,
          cigaret, coffin nail, butt]
      v 1: act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
      2: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
         "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour,
          toil, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
      3: exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;
         "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, {wear
         upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear,
          wear down, fag out, fatigue] [ant: refresh]
      [also: fagging, fagged]