Green vs Fag - What's the difference?
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Having green as its color.
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(label) Of people.
# Sickly, unwell.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Inexperienced.
#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
# or unaware of obvious facts.
# Overcome with envy.
Environmentally friendly.
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, title= (label) Of things.
# (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
# (label) Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.“unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency”
# (label) Not fully roasted; half raw.
#* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
# Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
# Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
(label) High or too high in acidity.
Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
(Philippines) describing something with a sexual connotation
(particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
(politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
(golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
(bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
(British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
* Milton
(mostly, in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
* Alexander Pope
Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
(British, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
(US, uncountable) Money.
(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
* Thomson
To become or grow green in colour.
To add greenspaces to (a town).
To become environmentally aware.
To make (something) environmentally friendly.
(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.
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(UK, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
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(British, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
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(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.
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(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 (
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# (colloquial, disparaging) In particular, a conspicuously non-straight-acting homosexual male.
(US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
As nouns the difference between green and fag
is that green is the colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters while fag is in textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.As verbs the difference between green and fag
is that green is to make (something) green, to turn (something) green while fag is to make exhausted, tired out.As an adjective green
is having green as its color.As a proper noun Green
is {{surname|common English|from=Middle English}.green
English
Adjective
(er)- to look so green and pale
- I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs.
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Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon
- We say the meat is green when half roasted.
- (Shakespeare)
- as valid against such an old and beneficent government as againstthe greenest usurpation
Synonyms
* raw, unprocessed, unsmoked * tart * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (having green as its colour) nongreen, ungreen * processed, smoked, spiced * cloy, sweetDerived terms
(green) * blue-green * * Board of Green Cloth * common green lacewing * engreen * evergreen * go green * the grass is always greener on the other side * greater green leafbird * great green macaw * green accounting * green acres * greenage * green alga * green and pale, green and wan * green apron * green about the gills, green around the gills * green arrow * green ash * green audit * greenback * green-backed firecrown * green bag, green-bag * green baize * green ban * green bass * (Green Bay) * green bean * green-bed * (Greenbelt) * green belt, greenbelt * Green Beret * green bice * green-bind * green bird * green-black * green blights * green-blue * green-bone, greenbone * green-bottle, greenbottle, greenbottle fly * green-book * green box * green brass * green brier, greenbrier * green broom * green bug * green burial * green butter * green card * green-charge * green cheese * green Christmas * green cloth, greencloth * green coat, green-coat * green-cod * green coffer * green con * green copperas * green cormorant * green corn * green crab * green crop * green cross * Green Cross Code * green curtain * green diallage * green dolphin * green dragon * green drake * green drops * green earth * green ebony * greened * green eel * green endive * green energy * greener * Green Erin * greenery * greenery-yallery * green-eyed * green fallow * green fat * greenfeed * green fever * green field, greenfield, green fields * green fillet * greenfinch * green fingers * green-finned * green fire * green-fish * greenflag * green flash * green fluorescent protein * green-fly, greenfly * green frog * green fund * greengage * green gate * green gill * green-gill, green-gilled * green ginger * green gland * green glass * Green Goddess * green gold * green-gold * green-golden * green goods * green goose * green gown * green grasshopper * green-gray, green-grey * green grosbeak * green hand, greenhand * green hastings * green head, greenhead * greenheart * green heron * greenhew * green hide, green-hide, greenhide * greenhorn * greenie * green in earth * greening * green investing * green iodide of mercury * green iron ore * greenish * the Green Island, the Green Isle * Green Jackets * green jaundice * green-jerkin * green jersey * greenkin * green label * green labeling, green labelling * Greenland * green laver * green lead ore * green leaf lettuce * green leech * green leek, green-leek, greek-leek parrot * greenlet * green light * Green Line * greenling * green linnet * Green Linnets * green lizard * green looper * green-louse * greenly * * green mamba * green man * greenman * greenmans * green manure * green marble * greenmarket * green mineral * green monkey * (Green Mountains) * Green Mountain State * green mustard * greenness * green oak * green old age * green onion * green out * green oyster * green paper * Green Party * green party * (Greenpeace) * green-peak, green-peek * green pea * green pepper * green peril * green pigeon * green-plot * green plover * green-pollack * green pound * green racer * green ray * green revolution * green ribbon * (Green River) * Green River Ordinance * green road * green rod * green room, green-room, greenroom * green rose * green rushes * green salad * green salt of Magnus * green-salted * green sand * green-sand, greensand * green sauce, greensauce * green sea * green-seal * green seaweed * greenshank * green-shaving * greenship * greenshoe option * green sickness, green-sickness, greensickness * green-side * green-sleeves * (Greensleeves) * green slip * green sloke * green snake * green snow * green soap * greensome * green-soil * green space * greenspeak * green-staff * greenstick fracture * green stocks * green-stone, greenstone * greenstrip * Green Striper * green-stuff, greenstuff * green swallow * greensward * green syrup * green table * green-tail * greentailing * green tar * green tea * greenth * green thumb * green top * green-tree ant * green turtle * green 'un * green vitriol * greenware * green water * greenwash * greenwashing * green wax, greenwax * green way, greenway * greenweed * green-wellie * green-wing * green-winged * green withe * green with envy * greenwood * green woodpecker * green-wort * greeny * green-yard, greenyard * green-yellow * in green * in the green tree * keep the bones green * lesser green leafbird * little green man * not as green as one is cabbage-looking * red-and-green macaw * sengreen * silgreen, sillgreen * something green in one's eye * still-green * ungreen * verigreen * yellow-greenReferences
Noun
(wikipedia green) (en noun)- o'er the smooth enamelled green
- In that soft season when descending showers / Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flowers.
Synonyms
* (environmentalist) environmentalist, greenbody greenie (Australian) treehugger * (green vegetables) veg (informal) * (putting green) putting green * (surface on which bowls is played) bowling greenDerived terms
* advanced green * almond green, almond-green * antigreen * apple green, apple-green * ay-green * Berlin green * Bermuda green, Bermuda-green * bice green * bladder green, bladder-green * bleaching green, bleaching-green * bottle green, bottle-green * bowling green, bowling-green * bronze green, bronze-green * Brunswick green Brunswick-green * cedar green, cedar-green * celandine green, celandine-green * chrome green, chrome-green * crown green * deep green, deep-green * emerald green, emerald-green * fair green * forest green, forest-green * gaudy-green * grape green, grape-green * grass green, grass-green * green-blind * green fee, greens fee * greengrocer * greenhouse * green-keeper, greenkeeper, greenskeeper * greenless * greenside * greensman * greenwash * green with envy * Gretna Green * Guignet's green * Hungary green, Hungary-green * hunter green, hunter's green * in the green * Jack-in-the-green * jade green, jade-green * jungle green, jungle-green * kelly green, kelly-green * Kendal green * Kensal Green * leek green, leek-green * lettuce green, lettuce-green * light green, light-green * lime green, lime-green * Lincoln green * little green man * long green * Marina green, Marina-green * mineral green, mineral-green * mitis green * Monastral Green * mondegreen * moss green, moss-green * mountain green, mountain-green * Nile green, Nile-green * olive green, olive-green * on the green * overgreen * Paris green * parrot green, parrot-green * pea green, pea-green * pistachio green, pistachio-green * Prussian green, Prussian-green * putting green, putting-green * red-green colorblindness, red-green colour blindness * regreen * RGB * rifle-green * rub of the green, rub on the green * Russian green, Russian-green * sage-green * sap-green * Saxon green, Saxon-green * Scheele's green * schweinfurt green * sea green, sea-green * see any green in one's eye * Spanish green, Spanish-green * spring green * town green * turquoise green, turquoise-green * Veronese green, Veronese-green * Vienna green * village green * vine-leaf green, vine-leaf-greenVerb
(en verb)- Great spring before greened all the year.
- (Tennyson)
- By greening slope and singing flood. — Whittier.
Synonyms
* engreenDerived terms
* greenable * greeningSee also
* biliverdin * chlorophyll * paloverde * salad days * salsa verde * secondary colour * terre verte * thallium * thallus * verdant * verdigris * verdin * verditer * verdure * verjuice * vert * vireo * virescent * virid * viridescent *Statistics
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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 .
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.}}
- Why did you do that, you fag ?
