Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fag
Participle: fagged
Gerund: fagging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fag |
| you | fag |
| he;she;it | fags |
| we | fag |
| you | fag |
| they | fag |
Perfect
| I | have fagged |
| you | have fagged |
| he;she;it | has fagged |
| we | have fagged |
| you | have fagged |
| they | have fagged |
Past
| I | fagged |
| you | fagged |
| he;she;it | fagged |
| we | fagged |
| you | fagged |
| they | fagged |
Pluperfect
| I | had fagged |
| you | had fagged |
| he;she;it | had fagged |
| we | had fagged |
| you | had fagged |
| they | had fagged |
Future
| I | will fag |
| you | will fag |
| he;she;it | will fag |
| we | will fag |
| you | will fag |
| they | will fag |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fagged |
| you | will have fagged |
| he;she;it | will have fagged |
| we | will have fagged |
| you | will have fagged |
| they | will have fagged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fag |
| you | fag |
| he;she;it | fag |
| we | fag |
| you | fag |
| they | fag |
Perfect
| I | have fagged |
| you | have fagged |
| he;she;it | have fagged |
| we | have fagged |
| you | have fagged |
| they | have fagged |
Imperfect
| I | fagged |
| you | fagged |
| he;she;it | fagged |
| we | fagged |
| you | fagged |
| they | fagged |
Pluperfect
| I | had fagged |
| you | had fagged |
| he;she;it | had fagged |
| we | had fagged |
| you | had fagged |
| they | had fagged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fag |
| you | would fag |
| he;she;it | would fag |
| we | would fag |
| you | would fag |
| they | would fag |
Perfect
| I | would have fagged |
| you | would have fagged |
| he;she;it | would have fagged |
| we | would have fagged |
| you | would have fagged |
| they | would have fagged |
Imperative
| you | fag |
| we | Let's fag |
| you | fag |
Verbs conjugated like 'fag'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fag'
bag,
dag,
fab,
fan,
fang,
fap,
fat,
fav,
fax,
fay,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to droop, decline, tire," 1530, apparently an alteration of flag in its verbal sense of "droop." Trans. sense of "to make (someone or something) fatigued" is first attested 1826.
2. Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).
Sample Sentences
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a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, "Fag", entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12,
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Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground.
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It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers. [1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63:]
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This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably. [1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 1, in Jane Eyre, HTML edition:]
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I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up. [1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:]