Sagged vs Fagged - What's the difference?
sagged | fagged |
(sag)
The state of sinking or bending; sagging.
The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
The difference height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
(figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
* Shakespeare
To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
To cause to bend or give way; to load.
(informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
* 2003 , Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants (page 173)
(fag)
(US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
* 1968 January 25,
* 2001 , (2001), 15,
* 2011 , Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories ,
(UK, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
* {{quote-book
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, editor=William Perry
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(British, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
* 1818 , '', 1992, ''Complete Works of Jane Austen ,
(British, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
* 1791 , Simon Sapling (pseudonym), Richard Cumberland, The Observer: A Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays , Volume 4,
(transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
(colloquial) To droop; to tire.
* G. Mackenzie, Lives'', quoted in 1829 , "Fag", entry in ''The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary , Volume 9,
(British, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
(vulgar, offensive) A homosexual person.
* 1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (
* {{quote-journal
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, author=American Neurological Association
, coauthors=New York Neurological Association et al
, journal=Journal of nervous and mental disease
, volume=94
, page=467
* 2006 , Lynn Mickelsen, Confusion Turned to Chaos
* {{quote-book
, year=2008
, author=Paul Ryan Brewer
, title=Value war: public opinion and the politics of gay rights
, page=60
# (colloquial, disparaging) In particular, a conspicuously non-straight-acting homosexual male.
(US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
As verbs the difference between sagged and fagged
is that sagged is past tense of sag while fagged is past tense of fag.sagged
English
Verb
(head)sag
English
Etymology 1
From late (etyl) saggen, probably of Scandinavian/(etyl) origin (compare Norwegian ); probably akin to Danish and Norwegian sakke, Swedish sacka, Icelandic sakka, Old Norse sokkva. Compare also Low German sacken, Dutch zakken.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(sagg)- A line or cable supported by its ends sags , even if it is tightly drawn.
- The floor of a room sags .
- A building may sag one way or another.
- The door sags on its hinges.
- The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, / Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "sag")Etymology 2
Noun
(-)- The dal tarka (£5) is made from whole yellow split peas, while sag aloo (£5) brings potatoes in a rich and oily spinach puree.
Anagrams
* ----fagged
English
Verb
(head)fag
English
Etymology 1
Probably fromNoun
(en noun)The Bulletin, Oregon,
- He?d Phase Out Fag Industry
- Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.
- All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their web fag ends into the fire.
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- So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag'. Then after a while they were asking me. They?d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a '''fag'''?’ And then I got better and I?d finish the sheep and they?d say ‘Christ, I haven?t finished me bloody ' fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’
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Synonyms
* (cigarette) ciggy (Australia), smoke, (Cockney rhyming slang) oily ragEtymology 2
Probably alteration ofNoun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag —I come back tired to death.
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- I had the character at ?chool of being the very be?t fag that ever came into it.
Verb
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- Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag , and then brought him to the ground.
Etymology 3
From (faggot).Noun
(en noun)Historical Documentation of American Slangv. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.
- Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”
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- A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag .
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- Why did you do that, you fag ?