fag
1. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
• Syn:
fagot, faggot, fairy, nance, pansy,
queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf
• Usage Domain:
disparagement, depreciation, derogation
• Hypernyms:
gay man, shirtlifter
2. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper;
for smoking
• Syn:
cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt
• Hypernyms:
roll of tobacco, smoke
• Hyponyms:
cubeb, cubeb cigarette, filter-tipped cigarette, joint, marijuana cigarette,
reefer, stick, spliff
• Part Meronyms:
cigarette butt
1. act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
• Hypernyms:
serve, attend to, wait on, attend, assist
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. work hard
- She was digging away at her math homework
- Lexicographers drudge all day long
• Syn:
labor, labour, toil, travail, grind,
drudge, dig, moil
• Derivationally related forms:
drudge (for: drudge), drudgery (for: drudge), grind (for: grind), travail (for: travail), toiler (for: toil), toil (for: toil), labour (for: labour), labourer (for: labour), labor (for: labor), laborer (for: labor)
• Hypernyms:
work, do work
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
3. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- We wore ourselves out on this hike
• Syn:
tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary,
jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fatigue
• Ant:
refresh (for: tire)
• Derivationally related forms:
fatigue (for: fatigue), jade (for: jade), wear (for: wear)
• Hypernyms:
indispose
• Hyponyms:
exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out,
overtire, overweary, overfatigue
• Cause:
tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
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