Fagged vs Ragged - What's the difference?
fagged | ragged |
(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
, title=The Royal standard English dictionary?
(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
, year=1926
, 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.
(rag)
Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.
Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
* (rfdate) .
Wearing tattered clothes.
Rough; shaggy; rugged.
* (rfdate), .
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=May 19
, author=Paul fletcher
, title=Blackpool 1-2 West Ham
, work=BBC Sport
As verbs the difference between fagged and ragged
is that fagged is past tense of fag while ragged is past tense of rag.As an adjective ragged is
rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.fagged
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Verb
(head)fag
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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 ?
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 stagSynonyms
* (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, queenragged
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- a ragged coat
- a ragged sail
- ragged rocks
- A ragged noise of mirth.
- a ragged fellow
- What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?
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