Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.
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- verb Present participle of
fag .
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Examples
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Theroux was referring to the 19th century system widespread in exclusive elite private schools see Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film If... known as "fagging" -- whereby pupils act as servants for other boys, waking them up in the morning during term time and presenting them with a newspaper, cup of tea and sometimes a bit of crumpet.
Martin Lewis: "Humans May Not Be Listed On eBay": Auction Of Politician For $1.5M Snuffed Out By eBay! Martin Lewis 2010
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Theroux was referring to the 19th century system widespread in exclusive elite private schools (see Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film If ...) known as "fagging" -- whereby pupils act as servants for other boys, waking them up in the morning during term time and presenting them with a newspaper, cup of tea and sometimes a bit of crumpet.
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Theroux was referring to the 19th century system widespread in exclusive elite private schools see Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film If... known as "fagging" -- whereby pupils act as servants for other boys, waking them up in the morning during term time and presenting them with a newspaper, cup of tea and sometimes a bit of crumpet.
Martin Lewis: "Humans May Not Be Listed On eBay": Auction Of Politician For $1.5M Snuffed Out By eBay! Martin Lewis 2010
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Theroux was referring to the 19th century system widespread in exclusive elite private schools (see Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film If ...) known as "fagging" -- whereby pupils act as servants for other boys, waking them up in the morning during term time and presenting them with a newspaper, cup of tea and sometimes a bit of crumpet.
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Aged 15 writes a paper against school tradition of fagging, which is subsequently abolished.
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Aged 15 writes a paper against school tradition of fagging, which is subsequently abolished.
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The result was that the system of "fagging," or the acting of some boys as drudges for the others, flourished.
The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook
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{71} He stoutly adhered to the system of "fagging," as being the best mode of responsible government for the school "out of school," founding his opinion on his own experience at Winchester, on which he often dwelt.
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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At such a period, public schools, with their exclusively classical teaching and their "fagging" systems, were naturally regarded as institutions of the past not adapted to the present.
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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But I thought again, and, yes, he was right, we did have a kind of fagging at school, though we never called it that.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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