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fag | fruit |

As nouns the difference between fag and fruit

is that fag is in textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric while fruit is the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

As verbs the difference between fag and fruit

is that fag is to make exhausted, tired out while fruit is to produce fruit.

fag

English

Etymology 1

Probably from

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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, 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.
  • * 2001 , (2001), 15,
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories , unnumbered page,
    • 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.’
  • (UK, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1788 , editor=William Perry , title=The Royal standard English dictionary? citation , passage=Fag , s. the worst part or end of anything.}}
    Synonyms
    * (cigarette) ciggy (Australia), smoke, (Cockney rhyming slang) oily rag

    Etymology 2

    Probably alteration of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
  • * 1818 , '', 1992, ''Complete Works of Jane Austen , 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.
  • (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, page 67,
    • I had the character at ?chool of being the very be?t fag that ever came into it.

    Verb

  • (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, page 12,
    • Creighton with-held his force 'till the Italian began to fag , and then brought him to the ground.
  • (British, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.

    • Etymology 3

    From (faggot).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual person.
  • * 1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators ( Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.
    • Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1926 , author=American Neurological Association , coauthors=New York Neurological Association et al , journal=Journal of nervous and mental disease , volume=94 , page=467 citation , passage=In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag ," " fruit," etc.). ... }}
  • * 2006 , Lynn Mickelsen, Confusion Turned to Chaos
    • A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag .
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2008 , author=Paul Ryan Brewer , title=Value war: public opinion and the politics of gay rights , page=60 citation , isbn=0742562115, 9780742562110 , passage=... what appeared to be overt appeals to anti-gay sentiment. When House Majority Whip Dick Armey referred to fellow Congressman Barney Frank as "Barney Fag " in 1995, he suffered a barage of negative publicity that prompted him to explain his choice of words as a slip of the tongue.}}
  • # (colloquial, disparaging) In particular, a conspicuously non-straight-acting homosexual male.
  • (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
    • Why did you do that, you fag ?
    Usage notes
    In North America, fag is often considered highly offensive, although some gay people have tried to reclaim it. (Compare faggot.) The humorousness of derived terms fag hag'' and ''fag stag is sometimes considered to lessen their offensiveness.
    Derived terms
    * fag hag * fag stag
    Synonyms
    * (male homosexual) faggot, fairy, homo, queer * (male homosexual friend) bro, pal * (annoying person) ass, asshole, dick, jerk, prick, putz, schmuck * (conspicuous homosexual) ** (effeminate or prissy) flamer, queen

    fruit

    English

    (wikipedia fruit)

    Noun

    (see for discussion of plural )
  • (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
    • While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
  • Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
    • Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
  • An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
    • His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the fruit of rashness
  • * Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
    • They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
  • * Macaulay
    • The fruits of this education became visible.
  • Offspring from a sexual union.
    • The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
  • * Shakespeare
    • King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown
  • (colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.

    • Usage notes

    * In the botanical and figurative senses, is usually treated as uncountable: *: a bowl of fruit'''''; ''eat plenty of '''fruit'''''; ''the tree provides '''fruit . * is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense: *: berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits'''''; ''the '''fruits of this plant split into two parts. * When is often used as a singulative. * In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits. * The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.

    Derived terms

    * bear fruit * fruitcake * fruit cocktail * fruit of one's loins * * fruit of the union * fruitage * fruitarian * fruitful * fruitless * fruit salad * fruit tree * fruity * grapefruit * jackfruit * passion fruit * Sharon fruit * star fruit, starfruit * stone fruit

    Related terms

    * frugivore * frugivorous

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce fruit.

    • See also

    * for a list of fruits

    External links

    * (Fruit) * (List of fruits) 1000 English basic words ----